Package: wnpp
Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <neumann@lostwebsite.net>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : cyclone
Version : 1.0/CVS
Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
* URL or Web page : http://cyclone.thelanguage.org
* License : GPL (+ BSD alike for some files)
Description : Safe dialect of C

Cyclone is a compiler for a language close to the C language. It adds
several feature to improve the safety on the C language. Such features
include:

- pattern matching,
- algebraic datatypes
- exceptions
- region-based memory management
- optional garbage collection.

One of cyclone aims is to produce programs that are more secure than C
programs by eliminating buffers overflows, double free bugs, dangling
pointers access, etc.

For Cyclone-l readers, this is a "Intent To Package" for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution. It is meant to say that there is somebody
working on packaging a particular software for the distribution.

If you have any comments or questions, I'll be happy to answer.

F-D

Quoting François-Denis Gonthier (neumann@lostwebsite.net):
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <neumann@lostwebsite.net>
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : cyclone
> Version : 1.0/CVS
> Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
> * URL or Web page : http://cyclone.thelanguage.org
> * License : GPL (+ BSD alike for some files)
> Description : Safe dialect of C

I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks"

"dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
for a package description.

> Quoting François-Denis Gonthier (neumann@lostwebsite.net):
> > Package: wnpp
> > Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <neumann@lostwebsite.net>
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name : cyclone
> > Version : 1.0/CVS
> > Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
> > * URL or Web page : http://cyclone.thelanguage.org
> > * License : GPL (+ BSD alike for some files)
> > Description : Safe dialect of C
>
> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks"
>
> "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
> for a package description.
>

I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.

Best,
Michael

Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> writes:
>> > Description : Safe dialect of C
>>
>> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks"
>
> I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.

Though the actual thing being compackage seems to be a compiler, so:

compiler for a "safe" dialect of C

-Miles

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Michael Tautschnig a écrit :

>> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks"
>>
>> "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
>> for a package description.
>>
>
> I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.

Well, some rationale would help to better understand why..:-)


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