Subj : Watcom compilers Open Sourced
To   : All
From : David Noon
Date : Sat Aug 26 2000 10:29 am

Hi ,

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.

Regards

Dave
<Team PL/I>

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Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ-SYBS) today announced that it will release the source code
to its Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compilers under an Open Source license, thus
enabling Watcom users to continue to use the products and evolve them to meet
the changing needs of the Watcom community.

[Note: this project is maintained by Kendall Bennett, who we all know from
Scitech Software!]

 http://www.openwatcom.org/

When asked for a comment on the relevancy to the OS/2 community of this
announcement, Mr. Bennett replied:

 It is very relevant to all OS/2 users. The Watcom compiler fully
 supports OS/2 development (both 16-bit and 32-bit), and we have a
 number of OS/2 developers on the core team (Timur Tabi is one of
 them). Hence we expect the OS/2 version will improve markedly as
 many of us want to see some of the major OS/2 bugs fixed (like
 support for multi-threading in the debugger etc). Also given that
 IBM recently canned VAC++, the OS/2 version will become even more
 important in the future.

 I am actually going to be giving a presentation on the Open Watcom
 compilers at Warpstock. The presentation will focus on exactly what
 will be included, and how this will affect the OS/2 community.

--- FleetStreet 1.25.1
* Origin: My other computer is an IBM S/390 (2:257/609.5)

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