Mozart development

[Filip Konvička]

Hi Torsten,
> Dear all,
>
> As you know, the core Mozart development cooled down somewhat. On the 
> other hand, we have now the infrastructure for a community-driven 
> development (e.g. developers can register at 
> http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/projects/mozart/ and the MEP scheme 
> controls the language development).
I think that there is no urgent need for core development. However, 
there are some core-level bugs that need attention, and the lack of core 
developers/hackers activity is a problem here. I'm afraid that the 
people that could fix these are involved in other projects and 
eventually will forget how "it worked" (or how "it should have worked"). 
So I can't miss this opportunity ;-) to urge whoever thinks he 
understands the stuff to at least make some comments for future adventurers.

Then again, maybe porting to 64 bits could be considered needed and 
core-level....but I don't know whether it is more development than hacking.

By the way, while I'm still knee-deep in my project, I'm still planning 
to fix stdio processing on Windows (and I think there's something wrong 
with pipe processing, too).
> - Unicode support: e.g., http://www.snowlion.nl/mozart/ and 
> http://www.mozart-oz.org/mogul/info/fkonvick/unicode.html (I may get 
> back to people like Maarten van den Dungen and Vladimir Zykov who were 
> very much iinterested in Unicode support for Mozart and offered their 
> help -- without much response at a time when Mozart development was 
> still rather closed)
I would hesitate to call my contribution "Unicode support" :-) because 
it is in fact a bunch of functions that do utf8 --> ucs4 and ucs4 --> 
cpXYZ. But then again, what else do you need :-) lol
> An important but somewhat hard question is this: how can the 
> development of individual Oz contributions be maintained by the 
> community? In particular, how are orphaned Mogul packages maintained? 
> For example, ozh 
> (http://www.mozart-oz.org/mogul/info/franzen/ozh.html) still supports 
> only Mozart 1.2.5. Filip Konvicka provided a patch for 1.3.* 
> (http://lists.gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/pipermail/mozart-users/2006/008016.html), 
> but that patch hasn't been merged into the ozh Mogul package.
I've been thinking of this too. I tried to contact the author of ozh but 
I think he is not reachable at the original address anymore, so I 
thought of creating a clone contribution "ozh2". What do you think of this?

Cheers,
Filip