On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:34:46AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be > >> FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more > >> commonly used language (I'd suggest C++) might also be worth considering > >> for upstream (depending on how hard it is to port to a Free Pascal > >> compiler). > > > > Actually, maybe this can help: http://cp-dev.sourceforge.net/ (but it's 32- > > bit-x86-only and it might not be complete enough to build OpenBUGS yet, plus > > I still wonder why the .obc source files contain that binary metadata in > > addition to the Pascal-like code). > > > > Kevin Kofler > > > > Thanks for the link. I did not know about that project yet, but it > does point over to the OpenBUGS site. > > I agree with you it is a bit weird that the BUGS source code is > wrapped into those binary odc files. The most favorable > interpretation I can give this is that it is a form of literate > programming, where the code is wrapped into documentation and so > forth. > > To the ODC haters: I agree, but... > > This *is* an open source project, if you have the right editor. I ran > the free BlackBox program inside Wine just now. Putting code into ODC > files is not conceptually different from wrapping a CPP program into > LaTeX source code, or wrapping R code into an Rnw file. The fact that > the code is not just a flat ascii file you can read with Emacs does > not make it less open. Is there any editor on Fedora that can handle these files? I tried libreoffice but it appeared to crash. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
