[PicForth] Pic18Forth - Major Announcement

[David McNab]

Hi,

Major update for Pic18Forth:

1) Website

The Pic18Forth website has moved to a new permanent home that won't be 
affected by my up/downtime: http://pic18forth.sourceforge.net

If anyone has linked to Pic18Forth, could you please at your earliest 
convenience change the URL to that above.

2) Change of License

To cut out the confusion, I've gone for a simpler licensing scheme:

  - GPL for compiler, test progs and doco
  - LGPL for library modules (which include code that gets inserted
    verbatim in final compiled applications)

3) New version

Pic18Forth v0.0.1 includes the following:

  - several major bug fixes

  - OO support! An optional, loadable OO layer, featuring an efficient,
    flexible late-binding polymorphic objects engine, with perhaps the
    easiest and most readable syntax of any forth OO engine

4) It's still alpha

While new features are coming thick and fast, and while bugs are 
dropping like flies, Pic18Forth is still alpha. Programs you write might
work fine, but then again they might fail in weird and often 
entertaining ways,

But if you're comfortable reading assembler and using gpsim/MPLAB/icd, 
you should cope fine.

Over time, I'll tidy up the demo progs into a suite of stepwise 
regression tests, as well as improve the currently shoddy state of the 
documentation.

-- 
Cheers
David