[Oberon] Data transfer in large amounts

[Skulski, Wojciech]

I am a great fan of NW. The fact that he is so active is amazing. 

On the other hand, why are release dates missing from the Project Oberon website? Why no announcements to this list? It would help to know that a file has been updated. It would help even more to know what has changed, and why.

Knowing the roadmap would be even better, if there is any plan of course.

W
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From: Oberon [oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] on behalf of Jörg Straube [joerg.straube at iaeth.ch]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] Data transfer in large amounts

Wojtek

Just a few days ago Srinivas asked the question "is there a version control system". I guess the answer is "NO".
I myself check from time to time and do a "diff" with previous versions to find the difference in source code. :-(

It seems that NW is doing the changes in his spare time. The latest changes are around improving type compatibilities in the compiler and a minor debug of Display.Mod.

Jörg

> Am 13.07.2016 um 08:02 schrieb Skulski, Wojciech <skulski at pas.rochester.edu>:
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> Paul:
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>  thank you for the comment. You wrote:
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>> a 64MB filesystem
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> This size fits well in a NOR flash chip whose size is limited to 64 MB. The SD cards are 4 GB and up. I do not think that my question concerning gigabytes was unreasonable.
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>> it's quite outside the scope of what we are doing
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> I take "we" as an indication that there is a team. Also, "scope" and "doing" is indicative of some sort of a plan. Would you mind sharing your plan, a roadmap, and the future of FPGA Oberon?
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> I am asking because someone here wrote that there are new releases on your website. According to that e-mail, the most recent release was July/04/2016. It is an indication that some work is going on. However, there are no announcements to this list when something is updated. There are no dates on the website https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.projectoberon.com_&d=CwIGaQ&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=uUiA_zLpwaGJIlq-_BM9w1wVOuyqPwHi3XzJRa-ybV0&m=tdKqwVlC-MZDRGF91ERlgC1HEHQmmpPOTl_4OZSgj5I&s=fHUWhu8oBYKQtOvPuH9601Qwco7fJCSfwjQxXtw5DMI&e= , other than 27.10.2015 in the top line. So I cannot check whether that information was true, or was it a mistake. Would you mind writing the release dates next to the files?
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> Would you mind explaining, what is going on? Are there any plans concerning FPGA Oberon?
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>> Oberon presents far fewer barriers to "doing it yourself", with absolute control, than other more mainstream systems.
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> One of the reasons I am a bit hesitant to put effort into FPGA Oberon is lack of information concerning its support, its future, and its stability. Lack of this basic information is the opposite to being in control. Uncertainty what is going on is discouraging from putting effort into FPGA Oberon. It would feel like building a house on a moving sand.
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> Perhaps being a bit less secretive could provide some sense of stability which is needed for any serious planning.
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