[Savannah-register-public] [task #4908] Submission of GNU Modula-2

[Gaius Mulley]

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                 Summary: Submission of GNU Modula-2
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: gaius
            Submitted on: Tue 11/08/05 at 22:01
         Should Start On: Tue 11/08/05 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Fri 11/18/05 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Full Name:
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  GNU Modula-2

System Group Name:
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  gm2

Type:
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  Official GNU software

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Other License: 
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  I had an email conversation with Richard Stallman a few years back when he
asked whether I would be willing to work on GNU Modula-2.

Basically I'd like the project to be considered
for inclusion as official GNU software - as it's aim
is to be integrated within the GCC source tree.

I've signed the copyright transfer and assign future for
this project and related projects GNU GCC, GNU Modula-2 and
GNU GDB. There are patches for these components within the
CVS tarball given in the description above.

Description:
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  GNU Modula-2 is a Modula-2 front end to GCC. It provides
two trees which can be currently grafted onto gcc-3.3.6;
the first tree is the actual compiler and libraries,
the second tree is a regression testsuite (dejagnu).

GNU Modula-2 comes with several libraries all GPL'd.
One of which is already on the www.gnu.org site (the ULM
library). Also included is a classical PIM set of libraries
and work is underway to implement a Logitech compatible library
and ISO Modula-2 libraries. At present some of these libraries
have been implemented and are still on the to do list.
It is the aim to provide a Programming in Modula-2 (Wirth) dialect
and also ISO Modula-2 dialect front end for GCC. The Programming in Modula-2
dialect has been implemented including threads (GNU pthreads), the SYSTEM and
base types have also been
implemented for ISO Modula-2.

All the code is GPL v2 expect the p2c compiler which is GPL v1.
GNU Modula-2 is written in Modula-2 and C. It bootstraps itself
via a modified version of p2c which is also included within 
the project.

Below is the URL which contains the current CVS (without gcc-3.3.6).
[I also need to update the copyright dates on all source files
and add the copyright notice to several files in the testsuite.]

http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/m2/gm2-cvs.tar.gz









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