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

[Jeff Johnson]

I have https://github.com/johnsonjh/pcc-revived which is a fork but it includes that and has some local changes/fixes of mine in a branch.

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On Sun, May 25, 2025, at 3:51 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 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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