[wwwdocs] extensions.html - remove "rogue" MELT page

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 6/15/19 9:45 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
>>> Basile, should we generally remove this reference to GCC MELT?
>> Yes. I am no more working on MELT, but I did begin to work on its successor:
> Sorry for the delay - I finally applied the patch below.
>
> If/when you want that successor to be listed on our extensions
> page, please advise (ideally submitting a patch, or even going
> ahead an applying it and just posting the patch).


The successor  (Bismon) is not ready, it is free software (GPLv3+ 
license), but still unreleased. So alpha stage. And it is a research 
project (so obligation of means, not of results).

You could look at the code on http://github.com/bstarynk/bismon/ (the 
copyright belongs to my employer, but could be transfered to FSF when/if 
wanted).

You could read a technical draft report on Bismon on 
http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/bismon-chariot-doc.pdf but this is a 
draft report and I am quite often improving it; feel free to provide any 
feedback to me (by email) about it; the title of that report is quite 
baroque, but mandated by the H2020 project funding the work. Notice that 
H2020 projects (see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Research_and_Technological_Development#Horizon_2020 
for more) are excessively bureaucratic (and more than previous European 
research projects), and not very FSF or GNU or free software friendly.

I don't even know if that Bismon will be ready for GCC before I am 
retiring. (probably in 2024, and perhaps in 2023).

I do know that once retired, I won't work on Bismon (and probably won't 
work much on GCC neither). I would work on some other free software 
project (also GPLv3+). I am waiting for my retirement....


Cheers.

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Basile STARYNKEVITCH   == http://starynkevitch.net/Basile
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