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k-john-gough / gpcp

Gardens Point Component Pascal is an implementation of the Component Pascal Language (CP). There are implementations for both the CLR and the JVM.
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Do you still develop gpcp? #13

Open ruanjiaxing opened 4 years ago

ruanjiaxing commented 4 years ago

You are very silent for a long time without any new activities.

ruanjiaxing commented 4 years ago

From what you said on my other issue it seemed gpcp is in maintanence mode, isn't it?

hoper-a11y commented 4 years ago

I wonder the same. This project seems to be no longer developed. The last commit is from 2018.

k-john-gough commented 4 years ago

Hi All. A couple of you have asked about the status of GPCP. GPCP was written quite a long time ago. The .NET version of it was a demo program for the initial release of the .NET system in 2000. The JVM version was already half done before I joined the Microsoft project-7 demonstration effort.

I made the decision in about 2005 NOT to upgrade the type system to allow generic types, even though I was involved with the introduction of generics into the V2.0 CLR. Component Pascal is not my language to make decisions about, even though I have put in a few extensions (like the VECTOR types and the automatic type coercions to and from the native object and string types).

I have kept the two versions of GPCP compatible with the current .NET and JVM runtimes, but I am not actively maintaining the language except for bug fixes. I will continue to do that while I can, but I am by now a long way past retirement age ...

ghost commented 12 months ago

@k-john-gough @proberon Will any of you update it to work with .NET Core? Latest .NET Core is already version 8.0. .NET Core seems to lack this method: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.emit.assemblybuilder.save?view=netframework-4.8.1#system-reflection-emit-assemblybuilder-save(system-string) as you can see on: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.emit?view=net-8.0

Update: I found this: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Lokad.ILPack