[TUHS] Off topic: Does anyone know what's going on with the PCC Revived project?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Also, the dickman pcc doesn't have the pcc-libs directory, which
is also needed.

"Greg A. Woods" <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:

> At Fri, 23 May 2025 14:39:03 +0200, Arno Griffioen via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Off topic: Does anyone know what's going on with the PCC Revived project?
> >
> > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 02:27:20PM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > > I'm hoping that someone hear (*BSD folks?) might know what's happened
> > > with the PCC Revived project. The site and CVS server for it went
> > > offline in October 2023 or so, and I lost the email address for
> > > Ragge who was doing it.
> >
> > Don't know the status of the PCC-Revived project, but Anders Magnusson
> > <ragge at tethuvudet.se> is still active now and again on the NetBSD/VAX
> > mailing list.
>
> In recent (March 26) private email Anders told me that indeed the CVS
> repository went unreachable because the machine it was hosted on was
> shut down.
>
> He said he has a plan to move it to https://github.com/PortableCC and
> that there are some pending fixes for it but that he hasn't had time to
> make the move yet.
>
> I asked him about the Git import at https://github.com/didickman/pcc and
> he said that looks like a good version to reference for now.  That
> repository seems to me to be a faithful conversion of the original CVS
> repository.  It has a DATESTAMP of 20230830 (which is ~7.5 years ahead
> of the version that was imported into, and is still in, the NetBSD
> source tree).
>
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