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Re: gforth maintained in Debian

From Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: gforth maintained in Debian
Date 2026-05-31 19:16 +0000
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Am Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:53:03 +0100 schrieb minforth:

> Am 21.03.2026 um 13:53 schrieb dxf:
>> On 21/03/2026 11:10 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>> I am pleased to see that Bernd Paysan maintains gforth in Debian. The
>>> version is still 0.7.3 but the good news is that gforth remain
>>> officially in Debian.
>> 
>> Win version is not maintained at all and it's a six year old 0.7.9 ;)
>> 
>> 
> Try WSL2

That's the reason why I stopped maintaining the Win version.  It turned 
out that WSL was getting better at running native Linux Gforth than Cygwin 
was running Gforth compiled from source, so it became a waste of time.  At 
that time, I had a customer project which was supposed to be running on an 
embedded Linux later, and the customer did run it on WSL to try it, and 
was happy with it.

Especially with features in upcoming Gforth 1.0 like Wayland-based MINOS2, 
which WSL2 supports out of the box in WSLg, and Cygwin would be a very 
time consuming port to get something similar up and running.

RMS says porting to non-free operating systems should only be done if 
there's no other option, and time should be spent on more important things 
to do.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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https://bernd-paysan.de/

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gforth maintained in Debian albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-21 13:10 +0100
  Re: gforth maintained in Debian dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-03-21 23:53 +1100
    Re: gforth maintained in Debian minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-03-21 19:53 +0100
      Re: gforth maintained in Debian dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-03-22 11:11 +1100
      Re: gforth maintained in Debian Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2026-05-31 19:16 +0000
        Re: gforth maintained in Debian Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-06-01 11:34 -0700
  Re: gforth maintained in Debian Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-23 09:02 -0700
    Re: gforth maintained in Debian anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-23 18:46 +0000
      Re: gforth maintained in Debian albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-24 12:52 +0100
        Re: gforth maintained in Debian anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-24 17:51 +0000
      Re: gforth maintained in Debian Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-24 10:29 -0700

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