Re: ffl improvements

albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:

In article <2024Dec12.094531@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:

You can test gforth easily because there is a separate debian package
to attach the ffl library.

>
Which one?

Who cares.

Ok, I take this to mean that your claim above and the claim below is
false.

There is a separate package to make it easier to run
ffl in gforth.

So I push them to https://github.com/uho/ffl
and hope it is accepted.

>
Ulrich Hoffmann is not the maintainer of the ffl AFAIK, so I would not
expect him to accept the pull request.

My bad. He is the owner, he cloned it, but he has no interest in it?

What do you mean with "owner"?  Forking another repo is a step in the
github process to produce pull requests.  E.g., I have forked ohcont
in order to produce the pull request I mentioned.  It means that uho
had some interest in the ffl at the time.  It does not mean that he is
the maintainer or will accept pull requests.

The question remains. Why has Ullrich forked the archive if he
is not planning to do anything with it.

You might ask him.  As mentioned, one guee is that he did it to
prepare a pull request.

I certainly see that his ffl has 409 commits, the latest of which is
from August 4, 2011, whereas <https://github.com/irdvo/ffl> has 440
commits, the latest of which is from July 29, 2017.  So it seems that
uho's interest in the ffl waned before irdvo's.

- anton
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