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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:18:00 -0600
From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
To: chethcoa@oss.oceaneering.com
CC: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: Windows Unicon?
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[Charles Hethcoat wrote:]
> Some earlier posts to this group indicated (it seemed) that an evolution
> of Unicon to a common implementation for UNIX and Windows might be under
> way. Perhaps "convergence" would be the better word. I was wondering if
> or when such a thing might occur, and what the status might be, and is
> there anything I might do to help.
A student of mine, Li Lin, has been working on porting Unicon to Windows for
the past 7-8 months. I believe much of the core file system access is
working at this point. He is presently debugging the networking code. When
his port works on reasonable tests, we will advertise for beta testers.
Shamim Mohamed and I have revised and extended the Unicon facilities to be
more platform-neutral. The new multiplatform system interface is covered
in a forthcoming book, "Programming with Icon". The timetable for releasing
everything was to be this spring, but the Windows Unicon port and some new
Icon versions of the byacc and flex compiler-writer's tools are both behind
schedule at this point. We won't do a beta release until the software is
ready, hopefully later this spring. The new distributions also include an
extensive set of database connectivity facilities, and a major rewrite of the
object-oriented facilities.
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html
Will Hack For Food!