David Noon wrote to All on 08/26/2000
I saw it on 08-27-2000!

I snipped this from Compuserve's capture of WarpCast. It
looks as though there will be fixes available for all those
nagging buglets in the Watcom compilers and, more
particularly, ancillary tools such as the linker.

Just to add a little more info that I've gleaned from the Sybase news
server, (news:://forums.sybase.com, groups are
powersoft.public.watcom_c_c++ and powersoft.public.watcom_fortran_77)
the initial plans are to provide an update to current Watcom C++ 11
users near term (like in a month or two) with full program downloads as
soon as they get their CM system up and the build mechanics resolved.
Shortly after that major milestone, they plan to open up the repository
and solicit user contributions to the code. Steven Howe, another of
the core maintainers, has indicated that they will be trying to
consolidate ALL the Watcom compiler versions (they all use the same
code generators) and make them all available. At least one of the core
group is working on getting Sybase to release the VXREXX code to revive
that as well.

This has to be the most welcome news to come down the pike in a long
time!

Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>
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Some senseless babbling from Will Honea to David Noon
on 08-27-28 00:00 about Watcom compilers Open So...

David Noon wrote to All on 08/26/2000
I saw it on 08-27-2000!

I snipped this from Compuserve's capture of WarpCast. It
looks as though there will be fixes available for all those
nagging buglets in the Watcom compilers and, more
particularly, ancillary tools such as the linker.

Just to add a little more info that I've gleaned from the Sybase news server, (news:://forums.sybase.com, groups are powersoft.public.watcom_c_c++ and powersoft.public.watcom_fortran_77)
the initial plans are to provide an update to current Watcom C++ 11
users near term (like in a month or two) with full program downloads
as soon as they get their CM system up and the build mechanics
resolved. Shortly after that major milestone, they plan to open up the repository and solicit user contributions to the code. Steven Howe, another of the core maintainers, has indicated that they will be trying
to consolidate ALL the Watcom compiler versions (they all use the same code generators) and make them all available. At least one of the
core group is working on getting Sybase to release the VXREXX code to revive that as well.

This has to be the most welcome news to come down the pike in a long
time!

It will be some time before you can actually get the source and start
fixing your own little bugs. Currently, the source is available only to
people under NDA, until the project can get rid of all source that doesn't belong to Sybase (a list that includes Microsoft, IBM, QNX, and probably a
few more companies).

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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