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Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL
- From: Keisuke Nishida <knishida at netlab dot jp>
- To: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, open-cobol-list at lists dot sourceforge dot net,cobolforgcc-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 04:50:31 +0900
- Subject: Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL
- References: <m3sms29xgn.wl@afina.netlab.jp><3EAED9AB.4090801@melbpc.org.au>
At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:59:39 +1000,
Tim Josling wrote:
>
> The main issues you will have to address are
>
> 1. A test suite. Existing languages have comprehensive test suites.
>
> 2. Coding standards, including comments. There are the FSF standards and
> on top of that the GCC standards.
>
> 3. Copyright assignment. Every significant contributor has to assign
> copyright to the FSF, and has to get a waiver from their school or
> employer.
>
> 4. Documentation, usually in texinfo format.
I think I need to write more documentation, including comments in the
source. On the other hand, I want to spend more time on coding than
commenting because I often rewrite the code.
After having some thought on this, I have decided to keep development
by myself for now, at least until the compiler becomes more stable
and more people use it. Then, I will ask to include it in GCC again.
Thanks,
Keisuke Nishida