Ken O. Burtch

Thank you for your questions and feedback. For general questions on SparForte, you can sign up to the mailing list on the website. 1. I understand your concern about readability....

The incorrect error message when raising a non-existent exception has been fixed.

SparForte's configure script now has a "released" flag. Development builds (not including the --released flag) will have the build date in the prompt and in the -V version message.

Well, (1) the project doesn't necessarily run under Git, so it would have to be optional; (2) what is the priority on this over the other concerns you have?

This error indicates the Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library or its header files (.h) are missing on your computer. You may install them with your Linux's installation tool using...

As before, you are missing the GNU Readline library header (.h) files. The C header files are equivalent to the Ada ".ads" package specification files. As you cannot build an...

This issue seems to be a bug in MariaDB, where they assign text to an integer variable. Newer versions of C do not allow this. I mention this issue on...

I understand and share your frustration. SparForte is tested and successfully built on Linux Mint (Ubuntu) 19, 20, 21, Red Hat 9, OpenSuse Linux 15 and Raspberry Pi (based on...

There's no known solution for the GCC 14 issue. See https://github.com/kburtch/SparForte/issues/27. I've added a warning to the website download page. My only suggestion is to try building SparForte on an...

SparForte is now building and passing tests on Linux Mint 22 / GCC 13.3, provided that the sound and graphics packages are disabled. That is, ./configure --without-sdl --without-opengl --without-sound. I...