RE: open source rpg compiler

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

If there were an OpenSource project for the RPG compiler you would face some 
problems:

1) At what OS level are you going to target? Taking the thread of last week, 
most fortunate programmers on V5 start using /Free. They would rule out older 
OS releases, because they "refuse" to write in the /Fixed syntax. And I recall 
you (no personal attack) being one of the advocates to bring new RPG 
functionality to the older OS versions.
2) What will be considered enhencements? Should all old opcodes be changed into 
BIF's? This means the revival of COMP, I assume. And overloading will be 
troublesome considering the workings of prototyping, which I think works well 
(type matching on calls). Let's try to make it graphical  for InfoWindows II 
monitors, then.
3) To what other platforms should it be ported? And what new capabilities it 
would bring to those platforms? Are we not turning oss RPG into an alternative 
java or C#? 

By the way, there is an OSS project on the  AS/400: Wyett Earp initiated by 
David Kilgore.

Just my two Euro-cents.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 5-5-03 at 10:55 Bob cozzi wrote:

>The problem with Open Source is not Open Source it is Open Source in the
>iSeries world. Nobody contributes to it. Everybody wants the results of it,
>but nobody wants to put in the effort to make it happen. We registered
>iSeriesOpenSource.com/.org about two years ago, nothing happened. 
>Now, there are several people who have websites that have put in a ton of
>work on utilities and tools for the OS/400 world. Granted some of them have
>included source code. But I have yet to see an Open Source project in the
>iSeries market.