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> > (1) I believe OuS has a partial Unix port
>
> I believe this also (or better: it is quite a bit more than a believe).
>
> As far as I know, a group around Fyodor Tchakov
> (are you listening Fyodor?) is working on a
> Linux/Gnome port. He promised me (almost a year
> ago ... pooh time is progressively accelerating)
> to keep me informed about that project ...
Thank you Bernhard, yes I am listening (but having problems with CERN
IT).
I visited Ominc for an hour a few days ago, and intend to see them again
in the first week of June.
There is indeed a small handful trying to do something in the direction of
Linux:
Unfortunately, as of April 2006, the then current Gnome libraries crashed
(invalid machine command) when BlackBox was starting.
Someone suggested to rewrite everything to X-Windows -- but that means an
order of magnitude more code + knowledge of X-libraries is needed.
However, all non-GUI tests for my symbolic calculations modules ran fine.
My current course of actions is to put together produce a tool to run my
computations on a linux cluster (a BB per node, interacting via TCP/IP),
with a remote control from a Windows machine.
There are ideas being worked on for how to do that via browser.
I have just started the (primitive) HTTP server demo:
http://cluster.inr.ac.ru:2001/
It even reacts -- primitively, but it does.
It may not run for long -- the cluster is being used...
All the credit to Ominc and Igor Dekhtiarenko (the city of Bryansk).
Command line compiler should be doable without excessive effort -- but our
focus is strictly pragmatic, on concrete problems, -- and all the
development is done on windows so far.
More later on the big progress we've had in Russia with pushing
BlackBox/Oberons into education space...
cheers
fyodor
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