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diff --git a/lang/modula-3/pkg-descr b/lang/modula-3/pkg-descr index 40023d3736a9..e4081fa85f4a 100644 --- a/lang/modula-3/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/modula-3/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is a port of Modula-3 release 3.5.3, from DEC Systems Research +This is a port of Modula-3 release 3.6, from DEC Systems Research Center. Modula-3 is a modern compiled programming language designed for systems programming as well as large applications. Some notable features include: @@ -34,11 +34,35 @@ A wealth of information about Modula-3 can be found at: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html This port includes patches for a number of bugs found since the -release of DEC SRC's version 3.5.3. To save space and time, only +release of DEC SRC's version 3.6. To save space and time, only the most commonly-used subset of the DEC distribution is built and -installed by this port. That includes the standard libraries and -the graphics packages, but not the (huge) separate projects such -as netobj, zeus, obliq, and visual obliq. You can change what is built -by doing "make configure" and then editing "work/m3/src/m3makefile". +installed by this port. That includes the compiler, the standard +libraries, and the graphics packages, but not the (huge) separate +projects such as netobj, zeus, obliq, and visual obliq. Specifically, +the following packages are included: --- John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> + X11R4 m3browser mtex showthread + coverage m3build parseparams src + digraph m3bundle pp table-list + formsedit m3core quake tcp + formsvbt m3front realgeometry tcpextras + formsvbtpixmaps m3linker recordheap tempfiles + images m3middle replayheap ui + jvideo m3tohtml set vbtkit + libm3 m3tools showheap videovbt + m3 m3totex shownew web + +To reduce download times, this port uses custom distfiles containing +only the packages listed above. Also, I have updated the code +generator so that it is based on gcc-2.7.2.1. If the gcc sources +are found on the system, the port will use the system sources +instead of downloading them. Altogether, these changes reduce the +size of the necessary distfiles from about 16 MB down to 2.7-4.5 +MB, depending on what is already installed on the system. + +If desired, the packages not included here can be built directly +from the DEC distribution, in: + + ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Modula-3/release-3.6/m3.tar.gz + +John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> |