> > I know of JAL but I must admit I haven't heard anything about these
> >  "things going on" - could you point me to this, please?
> >
> Oh, it's not that bad.  Most of the volunteers are interested in
> the stuff with glory attached.  18f support, mostly.  And the code
> was split up and reorganized along standard open source conventions.
> The relevant gripe is that despite months and more people working on
> it, I don't think there has been much actual improvement over the
> closed source version Wouter suppled as binaries.

But did you expect a sudden miracle? How much time did (for instance)
you spend on it?

> (OTOH, my interest was mainly in getting the compiler to run on
> my mac, which was essentially impossible without source.  Both
> Wouter's original source, and the carved up sourceforge version,
> compile and run under macosX with very little effort, so that
> IS a big improvement, it a way.

This (side) effect of opening the Jal compilers source was indeed one my
reasons.

Wouter van Ooijen

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