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Date:Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:42:45 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: Status of OpenPoplog (fwd) 
From:jeffb 
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Brent,

I've been out of the loop recently, engaged on a weekly commute from 
Worthing to Newcastle, where regrettably, I have neither time, nor 
access, to work on OpenPoplog. I apologise if things have drifted. I 
shall be able to devote more time to the project after I've delivered a 
client's new application at the end of May.

On the status of OpenPoplog. There are a bugreports file and a bugfixes 
directory that Aaron maintains, recording the status of the sources at 
Birmingham. On SourceForge, I have been raising Trackers for every bug I 
become aware of. The closed trackers represent fixes that have been 
applied. There are also a couple in our list, related to 
Windows-Poplog-specific bugs that I'm not sure are on Aaron's list. If 
the bug appears on Aaron's list, I use his numbering for our tracker.

According to the trackers, numbers 30 and 32 have yet to be applied from 
Aaron's list. The problem with 30 was that the bundle of files 
representing the fix seemed to be reverting some headers of our source 
to an earlier version. I think I remember Steve volunteering to have a 
look, but it might have been wishful thinking on my part.

The varargs problem, affects c_core.c in the %usepop%\pop\extern\lib 
directory, which is an essential part of the poplog.dll behind the 
Windows version. There needs to be a tracker raised for this on 
SourceForge, and then someone needs to volunteer the effort to fix the 
problem. I'm fully (over) booked until, at least, early June, when I may 
have to help out on another client's project.

If you would like to volunteer to step into the breach and address some 
of these outstanding issues, then all help would be gratefully received. 
If you need to be a registered Developer, then we can sort that out. If 
I'm away, there are two other Admins on the role who can register you.

Regards,

Jeff

In message <20040416171558.99001.qmail@web80308.mail.yahoo.com>, Brent 
Fulgham <bfulg@pacbell.net> writes
>
>--- Aaron Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> In the current linux version this has been fixed
>> (last November) thanks
>> to Andreas Eder and Waldek Hebisch, who explained
>> how to replace varargs
>> with stdargs.
>
>Jeff -- this update should be propogated into the
>Sourceforge project, shouldn't it?
>
>> I have just realized that I forgot to record all
>> this in
>>
>> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/bugfixes/
>>
>> which I'll try to do soon.
>>
>
>Speaking of which -- I remember seeing a post
>somewhere about the proper sequence for attempting to
>build a new version of Poplog from scratch.  I can't
>seem to locate the link now -- does anyone know where
>I can find this information?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Brent
>
 
-- 
Jeff