On 07/17/08 02:05, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
>
> And there is a GPLed implementation of this at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm
>
> which would be really interesting to package for the Debian Med project.
> The problem is the bootstrapping procedure (you need a running GT.M to
> compile the next version) and we just have no idea how to deal with this.
IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself?
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07-17-2008, 07:43 PM
Andreas Tille
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself?
Sure. The problem is that there was an initial bootstrap at some
point in time and you can relay on a working gcc in Debian since
ages. This is not the case for GT.M and even if I would have
interest to support GT.M for Debian Med because it would give us
a grip to the only professional free hospital management system
(VISTA) I could follow the arguing that introducing such complicated
steps for cornerstone software is not really welcome. (Well
nobody did so catually but I did not provoked this argument until
now because I do not even have time to try ...)
Thanks for the hint anyway
Andreas.
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