[Oberon] oo2c in ubuntu

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi Martin,

[...]
> 
> I typically use the oo2c compiler for developing Oberon, but recently
> (as of the release of Ubuntu 8.10, I believe) oo2c has been 
> removed from
> the apt repository.
> 
> Does anyone here know why/know the maintainer?
> 

hmm, I only shortly tried to use the outdated package from
the repository and switched quickly to bootstrapping the
source package (which wasn't really difficult), so I googled 
and found the following:

From: Luk Claes <luk at debian.org>
To: submit at bugs.debian.org
Subject: O: oo2c -- Optimizing Oberon-2 to ANSI-C Compiler
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:30:18 +0200

The current maintainer of oo2c, Florian M. Weps <fmw at debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.

If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.


see also:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379224


The problem is that also the projects home page at sourceforge
looks very orphaned (as noted by Stewart Greenhill, an active 
member of the project, see:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=49221C71.7070007%40u
sers.sf.net&forum_name=ooc-compiler) 

[...]
> oo2c was the only Oberon compiler in Ubuntu (or debian).
> 

yes, that's a pity ...

regards
    Bernhard