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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<head>
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<title>Free Critical Mass Modula-3 (CM3)</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<h2>Critical Mass Modula-3 (CM3)</h2>
<center>
<p>
Welcome to the official home page of Critical Mass Modula-3 (CM3).
</p>
<p>
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<input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" value="modula3.elegosoft.com">
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<input type="submit" name="search" value="search this site">
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</form>
</p>
</center>
<h3>What is CM3?</h3>
<p>
<b>CM3</b> is the first <b>open source</b> release of
Critical Mass Modula-3. It is a complete easy-to-use and
easy-to-install Modula-3 system that contains considerable
enhancements over its ancestor DEC SRC Modula-3. Read <a
href="about-cm3.html">About CM3</a> to learn more.
</p>
<p>
All the sources are available under the free DEC SRC style
copyright. Please read <a href="COPYRIGHT-CMASS">
COPYRIGHT-CMASS</a> and <a
href="COPYRIGHT-DEC">COPYRIGHT-DEC</a>. <a
href="http://www.elego-software-solutions.com">Elego Software
Solutions</a> has supported the CM3 project but does not own
any copyrights; the release of the code has been done on request
and with explicit authorization from Critical Mass, Inc.
</p>
<p>
Please read all the available information before downloading any
archives.
</p>
<h3>What is Modula-3</h3>
<p>
<em>
This paragraph is borrowed from the
<a href="http://modula3.elegosoft.com/pm3/intro/questions/questions.html">
Modula-3 FAQ</a></em>.
<p>
Modula-3 is a systems programming language that descends from
Mesa, Modula-2, Cedar, and Modula-2+. It also resembles its
cousins Object Pascal, Oberon, and Euclid.
</p>
<p>
The goal of Modula-3 is to be as simple and safe as it can be
while meeting the needs of modern systems programmers. Instead
of exploring new features, we studied the features of the Modula
family of languages that have proven themselves in practice and
tried to simplify them into a harmonious language. We found
that most of the successful features were aimed at one of two
main goals: greater robustness, and a simpler, more systematic
type system.
</p>
<p>
Modula-3 retains one of Modula-2's most successful features, the
provision for explicit interfaces between modules. It adds
objects and classes, exception handling, garbage collection,
lightweight processes (or threads), and the isolation of unsafe
features.
</p>
<!-- <p>
If you want still more detail, you can read the <a
href="http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/m3defn/html/intro.html#idx.0">
design history of Modula-3</a> from the DEC (now Compaq)
Systems Research Center.
</p> -->
<h3>Contents</h3>
<table align="center" width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="10"
cellspacing="5">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="#news">News</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="about-cm3.html">About CM3</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="about-cm3.html#if-changes">CM3 IF Changes and Performance</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="#reactor">About Reactor</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="doc/index.html">CM3 5.X Documentation</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="installation.html">Installation Notes</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="upgrading.html">Upgrading CM3</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="todo.html">Things To Do</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="logs/package-status.html">Package Status</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="known-problems.html">Known Problems</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="booting.html">Booting CM3 using M3</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="porting.html">Porting CM3</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="download.html">Download</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="cvsup-cm3.html">Downloading CM3 with CVSup</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="cvs-cm3.html">Downloading CM3 with Anonymous CVS</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/">CM3 CVS Repository online</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="cm3-cm-rules.html">CM3 Configuration Management Rules</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="cm3-problem-report.html">CM3 Problem Report</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="mailing-lists.html">M3 Mailing Lists</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="plans.html">Plans</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="cm3-and-elego.html">CM3 and Elego ComPact</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href="ChangeLog">Complete CM3 CVS ChangeLog</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a
href="http://tinderbox.elegosoft.com/tinderbox/cm3/status.html">Tinderbox Regression Tests</a>
</td>
<td class="tablebg">
<a href=""></a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<hr>
<h3>Contributions and Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>
A lot of people have contributed to the original M3 release by
DEC SRC, and the 5.1 code release is almost entirely the
work of members of Critical Mass. I don't know all the names and
cannot provide a list here. It would also not have been possible
for me to setup this distribution without PM3 Modula-3.
</p>
<p>
Several people have contributed to the open source
releases of CM3 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 since the announcement of its
availability for test. The latest release notes contain some
names, but I still haven't got around to provide a complete
list. Please don't be annoyed if you don't find your name
mentioned here yet; just send me some lines with the
contributions you would like to be mentioned, and I'll put
together a list and publish it.
</p>
<hr>
<a name="reactor">
<h3>A Note about Reactor</h3>
</a>
<p>
Critical Mass used to distribute their CM3 compiler as the core
component of the Reactor GUI. Unfortunately, this software is
not available yet as open source. (Actually, we do have the
sources, but no permission yet to distribute them.) We're
working on the issue, but cannot give any estimate about an open
source release date for Reactor.
</p>
<hr>
<a name="news"><h3>News</h3></a>
<dl>
<dt class="datebg">2007-12-18</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Some new bootstrap archives are now available from the
<a href="download.html">download page</a> labelled d5.5.0.
This should help overcome the problems people run into when
trying to build the current sources with the 5.4.0 release.
Since the last release the compiler has been extended by a
64 bit LONGINT type; work on the threading system and
garbage collector has continued. This makes updating to
current sources a bit more difficult.
See the recently added <a href="ChangeLog">CM3 ChangeLog</a>
for details.
</p>
<p>
This is no official release with the usual release
engineering and testing, but just some compilations from the
current CVS head. Nonetheless installations with these
archives may be much easier for unexperienced users.
</p>
<p>
Hopefully more archives will be built during the next days.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2006-10-25</dt>
<dd>
<p>
The CM3 5.4.0 release is now available from the
<a href="download.html">download page</a>.
The <a href="RELNOTES_5_4_0">release announcement</a> didn't make
it into the 5.4.0 download archives, but is available online.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2006-08-08</dt>
<dd>
<p>
There is now a web page about the
<a href="cm3-5.4-status.html">status of the upcoming cm3 5.4 release</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2006-06-27</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Recently, a lot of work has been done on CM3, its compiler,
runtime, and further library support, which hasn't been
communicated very well to interested parties. For some time,
only development snapshots have been available as
releases. The next complete release will be 5.4 and will very
likely contain the following features:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Support for incremental and generational garbage
collection without virtual memory support of the
underlying OS platform. This will make porting much
easier. A detailed description of the work done in this
area can be found in the article
<a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133956.1133963">
Portable, mostly-concurrent, mostly-copying garbage
collection for multi-processors</a>. The new garbage
collector also supports fast-path allocation
for concurrent system-level threads.
</li>
<li>
The traditional user-level threading system of M3 on
POSIX platforms has been complemented by an operating
system-level threading system on several platforms
(currently SunOS, Linux, DarwinPPC). More
implementations of system-level threads are expected.
This allows the scheduling of CM3 threads on concurrent
processors and will be appreciated by those implementing
scalable and highly-responsive server processes in M3.
</li>
<li>
The gcc-backend of the CM3 compiler has been upgraded to
gcc releases 3.4 (already available) and 4.1.0
(announced to work tomorrow :). This will bring new and
improved support for current operating system / hardware
platforms as well as improved code generation and
optimization for existing targets.
</li>
<li>
Current GDB support will improve debugging. A snapshot
of the work is already available.
</li>
<li>
Improved support for arithmetic calculations
(m3-libs/arithmetic)
</li>
<li>
Support for plotting (m3-libs/plplot)
</li>
</ul>
<p>
I'm pretty sure this list is still incomplete and should be
extended by the contributor's.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2006-06-22</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Rodney M. Bates provides a new version of the m3gdb
debugger. This version of m3gdb is based on gdb version
6.4. It is available for download from this site.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2006-06-22</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A new version d5.3.2 for CM3 is available for download from
this website for the following OSs
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Linux
</li>
<li>
FreeBSD 4.x
</li>
<li>
FreeBSD 6.x
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2005-05-12</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Stefan Sperling added support for NetBSD 2.x. His installation
archive can be found at
<a href="cm3-min-POSIX-NetBSD2_i386-d5.2.7-2005-03-31.tgz">
cm3-min-POSIX-NetBSD2_i386-d5.2.7-2005-03-31.tgz</a>
At this stage, bug reports should be sent directly to
stsp at elego dot de.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2005-03-31</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A new pre-release archive for CM3 5.2.7, labelled
d5.2.7-2005-03-31, has been put up for HTTP access. The
d5.2.7-2005-03-31 release fixes several bugs on recent Linux
distributions, like Fedora 3 and Gentoo Linux.
</p>
<p>
It has been compiled and tested on the following
Linux systems:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Debian stable, Linux Kernel 2.4.29
</li>
<li>
Debian testing, Linux Kernel 2.4.29
</li>
<li>
Debian testing, Linux Kernel 2.6.11.4
</li>
<li>
Fedora 3, Linux Kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2004-10-31</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Several pre-release archives for CM3 5.2.7, labelled
d5.2.7-2004-10-31, have been put up for HTTP access. So far,
d5.2.7-2004-10-31 has been compiled successfully on the following
systems:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Linux gosg3.gosdomain 2.6.8.1 #1 Mon Sep 27 17:16:51 CEST
2004 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux (Crux Linux for PPC)
</li>
<li>
FreeBSD luthien.iceflower.in-berlin.de 4.10-RELEASE-p2
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #10: Sun Jul 4 03:36:36 CEST 2004
root@luthien.iceflower.in-berlin.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUTHIEN
i386
</li>
<li>
Linux birch 2.4.26 #2 Fri Jun 25 21:14:02 CEST 2004 i686
unknown (Debian Stable for i386)
</li>
<!--
<li>
Darwin lamancha.opendarwin.org 7.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version
7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003;
root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
powerpc (Open Darwin)
</li>
-->
</ul>
<p>
Patches to compile CVSup with this latest release have also
been put up on the <a href="download.html">download page</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2003-09-19</dt>
<dd>
<p>
As the binary installation archive for the SOLgnu platform
of the cm3 5.2.6 release contained compilation errors for
which there is no workaround, the archive has been replaced
with cm3-min-POSIX-SOLgnu-d5.2.7.tgz which is a snapshot of
the current development tree and can be used instead.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2003-07-16</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<b>CM3 5.2.6</b> has been released. Apart from the new
target platform PPC_LINUX (Linux running on PowerPCs), this
release contains an upgrade of the code generator to gcc
3.2.3, errno fixes for the latest glibc versions, and
several more bug fixes and small extensions. Have a
look at the <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_6">RELNOTES_5_2_6</a>
for details.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2003-04-05</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Additional information about know problem for the 5.2.X
releases of CM3 has been added to the
<a href="known-problems.html">Known Problems</a> page.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2003-03-26</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<b>CM3 5.2.4</b> has been released. This is a maintenance
release with several bug fixes and small extensions. Have a
look at the <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_4">RELNOTES_5_2_4</a>
for details.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2003-02-10</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<b>CM3 5.2.0</b> has been released. It features a completely
new code generation back-end based on gcc 3.2.1 and support
for the new target platform PPC_DARWIN (Darwin, MacOS X on
PowerPC). The new code generator has one flaw: it cannot
work with the table based exception frame implementation of
the current front end, so this needs to be re-done. As a
consequence, the new back-end is not recommended for all
target platforms supporting stack walkers. This release is
made to make support for the new target platform available
for everybody. See <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_0">RELNOTES_5_2_0</a>
for details.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-04-08</dt>
<dd>
<p>
The document archive has been updated. <a
href="cm3-doc-5.1.8.tgz">cm3-doc-5.1.8.tgz</a> now contains
all the current generated package documentation as of
2002-04-08. CM3 now also includes <em>m3browser</em>, the
well-known HTTP server that generates HTML documentation
about installed packages on the fly, fully cross-referenced
down to the type-level. <em>m3browser</em> has been imported
from the PM3 distribution, together with the packages
<em>m3scan</em> and <em>m3markup</em>, all of which reside
in <em>m3-tools</em>. At the same time, some buffer
implementations used in several packages have been extracted
into their own library, <em>libbuf</em>. These changes are
currently only available via CVS and CVSup.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-04-02</dt>
<dd>
<p>
I've added another <a href="src-update-2002-04-02.tgz">5.1.8
fix archive</a> for those without CVSup and CVS
ambitions. This archive contains all changed files since
the 5.1.8 release of CM3.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-02-19</dt>
<dd>
<p>
You can now <a href="http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/">browse
the CM3 CVS repository</a> online with your webbrowser.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-02-12</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A bug in the binary installation archives of 5.1.8 for all
POSIX platforms has been found. It is easy to fix,
though. See
<a href="known-problems.html#p_4_2">
4.2 [Release 5.1.8] Linkage failure on POSIX platforms due
to wrong paths (/pub/lang/m3/cm3-dist) in binary
installation archives
</a> for details. As this can be easily corrected manually
after the installation, no new distribution archives have
been created.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-01-12</dt>
<dd>
<p>
The master CVS repository for CM3 has been moved to
modula3.elegosoft.com. This means that everybody who wants to
work on the CM3 sources directly can get write access if he
provides an ssh key (protocol version 2 (DSA)
preferred). Send email to
<a href="mailto:m3-support{at}elego.de">m3-support{at}elego.de</a>
if you are interested, and have a look at the <a
href="cm3-cm-rules.html">CM3 configuration management
rules</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2002-01-11</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A bug in the installation program has been fixed. See <a
href="known-problems.html#p_4_1">4.1 Linkage failure:
missing -L before library paths (installer bug)</a> for
details. As this can be easily corrected manually after the
installation, no new distribution archives have been
created.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-12-21</dt>
<dd>
<p>
As always with new releases, some bugs appear right after
creating the archives :-( Instead of building new release
archives, I've created a <a href="src-update-2001-12-21.tgz">5.1.8
fix archive</a> for those without CVSup and CVS ambitions.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-12-20</dt>
<dd>
<p>
CM3 5.1.8 has been released. New distribution archives have
been placed on the servers for most of the active
platforms. Changes include bug-fixes to the compiler
(backend and quake interpreter), extraction of the system
call wrappers from m3core into m3gc-enhanced, and addition of
and fixes for lots of packages, concerning obliq, shared
objects, graphics, and general useful libraries. A more
detailed list of the changes can be found
<a href="cm3-5.1.8-details.txt">here</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-11-25</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Some new distribution archives have been placed on the server,
including some fixes to the compiler and documentation. The
current release number is now 5.1.6. Those who have installed
5.1.3 or 5.1.4 should rather get the updates via CVSup or CVS
than download the big distribution archives. Not all binary
installation packages have been rebuilt and updated yet; a
full build will probably be deferred until some of the more
substantial changes currently in work are finished.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-09-20</dt>
<dd>
<p>
In addition to <a href="cvsup-cm3.html">CVSup access</a>, now
<a href="cvs-cm3.html">anonymous CVS pserver access</a> has
been set up, too.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-09-19</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<a href="src-update-2001-09-19.tgz"
type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-09-19.tgz</a>
has been added, which adds a fix for compilation of m3core on
Linux systems using glibc 2.2, some minor package fixes, and
the <a href="http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/parserlib/">parser
tools</a> and <a href="http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/gmodule/">
template generator</a> distribution from the California
Institute of Technology, contributed by Karl
Papadantonakis.
</p>
<p>
Some progress has been made on improving the infrastructure
of the cm3 source distribution: A <a href="cvsup-cm3.html">
cm3 CVSup server</a> has been
installed, and the cm3 repository is replicated once every
night. As there are still unresolved issues with the domain
registration for the machine the server is located on, it
can currently only be contacted as
ds217-115-141-112.dedicated.hosteurope.de or via IP number
217.115.141.112. The CVSup server currently knows about the
collections cm3, cm3-caltech-parser, cm3-doc, cm3-m3-comm,
cm3-m3-db, cm3-m3-demo, cm3-m3-games, cm3-m3-lectern,
cm3-m3-libs, cm3-m3-mail, cm3-m3-obliq, cm3-m3-pkgtools,
cm3-m3-sys, cm3-m3-tools, cm3-m3-ui, cm3-m3-www,
cm3-scripts, cm3-www. Anonymous CVS pserver access will be
added soon, too.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-05-12</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<a href="src-update-2001-05-12.tgz"
type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-05-12.tgz</a>
has been added, which contains the differences between
releases 5.1.3 and 5.1.4. These are: (1) A fix for
m3core/src/text/TextSub.m3, (2) the addition of the <a
href="http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/juno-2/">Juno-2</a>
packages, which contain a graphical constraint based editor,
(3) a <tt>do-cm3-std.bat</tt> script (untested), and (4)
several minor script fixes and improvements.
</p>
<p>
5.1.4 is also available as the source archive <a
href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-src-std-5.1.4.tgz</a>,
and as a binary installation archive for FreeBSD3. I haven't
yet been able to build more distribution archives, but hope
to get round to it next week. This should be no big problem,
since everybody can easily use the update archive to upgrade
his/her system.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-04-11</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Put up another binary installation archive for WIN32,
cm3-min-WIN32-NT386-5.1.3a.tgz, for download. The libraries
and programs in this archive are built with a recent version
of the Microsoft C tools.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-04-08</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A simple build script for NT/Win2000 cmd shells has been
added to the latest scripts archive. Some obsolete passages
from the web pages have been removed, and some final
adjustments before the official release have been made.
</p>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-04-06</dt>
<dd>
<p>
The first archives of the official CM3 5.1.3 release
have been created. CM3 5.1.3 contains a work-around for the
DLL creation / linker problem on NT386 (which actually seems
to be a C compiler problem), a last-minute fix for dynamic
linked executable on LINUXLIBC6, an almost completely fixed
HTML documentation tree, and several minor fixes. The binary
installation still supports only four platforms: NT386
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 on x86), LINUXLIBC6 (Linux with
glibc 2.1 on x86), FreeBSD3 (FreeBSD 3.X (4.X, 5.X?)) on
x86, and Solaris (SunOS 5.6, 5.7, 5.8) on SPARC. On all
these platforms dynamic linking and incremental and
generational garbage collection is implemented.
</p>
<p>
Once all archives are created and uploaded, some old stuff
will be removed, cm3-unofficial will be renamed cm3, and an
announcement will be posted to the m3 newsgroup.
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<dt class="datebg">2001-03-11</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A chapter about
<a href="about-cm3.html#if-changes">CM3 5.1 Interface Changes
and Performance</a> has been added, as well as some
updates to the TODO lists.
</p>
<p>
A new source update archive
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has also been created which contains the following latest
changes:
updates and fixes for packages cm3 (minimal profiling support
for some POSIX systems), cminstall (win32 improvements), libm3
(changed ProcessWin32 module), m3core (FreeBSD4 dtoa fix),
scripts, and CMASS copyright texts.
</p>
<p>
The scripts archive has been updated, too.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-03-06</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Added a new installer for WIN32 which replaces filenames
with spaces by their 8.3 equivalent.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-03-01 (20 hours later)</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Several source and binary distributions have been upgraded
to patch level 1 (cm3 5.1.1). This patch level includes all
the fixes and extensions prior to 2001-03-01 (described
below) plus the following recent changes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
fixes for packages <tt>postgres95</tt> and
<tt>smalldb</tt> (conditional compilation and win32
extensions)
</li>
<li>
cm3 now defines the quake variables <tt>CM3_VERSION</tt>,
<tt>CM3_CREATED</tt>, and <tt>EOL</tt>. Based on these
values, conditional compilation in m3makefiles should be
easy.
</li>
<li>
The installer now looks for several other archives to
unpack and installs them if found, including docs, fixes,
and misc. On win32, the missing <tt>cygwin.dll</tt> for
<tt>tar.exe</tt> has been added.
</li>
<li>
cm3 has a new option <tt>-depend</tt>, which writes a
makefile dependency line containing the package
dependencies.
</li>
<li>
As usual, several scripts have been fixed ;-) and some new
ones provided.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
The TODO and package status lists have been updated. Some
platform notes have been added on the installation page.
</p>
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-03-01</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A problem report page has been added. Problem reports will be
sent to the GNATS database at elego Software Solutions GmbH.
</p>
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-02-24</dt>
<dd>
<p>
The most important news is that now <b>documentation</b> is
available for CM3 5.1. Much is still missing and not
everything is up-to-date, but there is a complete set of
documents for all standard packages and interfaces; the nice
interfaces overview page from Critical Mass' Reactor
distribution has been updated.
</p>
<p>
The <tt>m3tohtml</tt> program (which was broken due to several
interface changes in the standard libraries) has been
fixed. I have also added a user-friendlier frontend, some
documentation (try `-h'), and made it more robust. It
has been used to generate all the current package
documentation in HTML, and you should also be able to use it
for your own purposes without much effort.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Get the documentation archive from
<a href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-doc-5.1.0.tgz</a>.
</li>
<li>
The source fixes for m3tohtml and the db and odbc
libraries are in <a href="OUTDATED.html">src-update-2001-02-24.tgz</a>.
</li>
<li>
A new scripts archive is in <a href="OUTDATED.html">
cm3-scripts-2001-02-21.tgz</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-02-21</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>
Some porting notes have finally been added. See
<a href="porting.html">Porting CM3</a>.
</li>
<li>
The LINUXLIBC6 extensions are missing in the current
source archives. Get <a href="src-update-2001-02-21.tgz"
type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-02-21.tgz</a>
from the download page.
</li>
<li>
<a href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-scripts-2001-02-21.tgz</a>
contains a current version of all the scripts. A new
scripts archive will be published from time to time.
</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-02-19</dt>
<dd>
Several items have been added today:
<ul>
<li>
The first source update containing fixes for all the
m3override files in <a href="m3override-update.tgz"
type="application/octet-stream">m3override-update.tgz</a>.
</li>
<li>
A table with information about the <a
href="package-status.html">status of all
packages</a>. This is of course still very incomplete.
</li>
<li>
Instructions how to use <a href="cm3-and-elego.html">CM3
5.1 together with Elego ComPact</a> have been added.
</li>
<li>
A snapshot of the CVS repository can be accessed via the
<a href="download.html">Download Page</a>.
</li>
<li>
Added src-update-2001-02-19.tgz. See
<a href="download.html">Download Page</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt class="datebg">2001-02-18</dt>
<dd>
A binary boot archive for the SOLgnu target (SunOS on SPARC)
is now available. See the <a href="download.html">Download
Page</a>.
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