aaron sloman

Poplog is being ported to Apple OSX on Power PC.

As a first step, PC Linux Poplog has been ported to PC+Darwin.
Testers are needed for this.

The next step will be PPC+Linux, to be followed by PPC+OSX.

Anyone who is willing to test the PC+Darwin version of poplog can find
sources and binaries here:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/darwin+pc/

the contents are
AREADME.txt
Overview of contents

PoplogDarwinReleaseNotes.txt
Poplog Darwin Release Notes
2177 Bytes

PoplogPortToDarwin.rtf
22188 bytes
Report on Poplog Port to Darwin (about the modified sources)
also available as
PoplogPortToDarwin.html
24201 bytes

PoplogPortToDarwin.pdf
85370 bytes

darwin-pc-poplog.tar.gz
28,953,324 bytes
Tar file containing Poplog for Darwin
Including local files and saved images.

darwin-pc-poplog/
About 91 Mbytes
Unpacked tar file for anyone who wishes to browse the
changed sources
NB These two files are both symbolic links:
darwin-pc-poplog/current.poplog/
darwin-pc-poplog/v15.53/
to
darwin-pc-poplog/v15.53e/

Poplog is a free, open source, software development platform designed
for teaching and research in AI and other fields that can benefit from
exploratory rapid prototyping. It is described here:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/poplog.info.html
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html

The core language, Pop11, is similar in power to Common lisp, but
uses a more conventional syntax. Pop11 is introduced here

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/primer/START.html

Pop11 is incrementally compiled to machine code. Since the compiler
routines have to be part of the run time system they have been made
available to users. On this basis it proved possible to provide
incremental compilers also for Common Lisp, Prolog, and Standard ML.
Other languages can also be implemented.

It's also possible to use the same techniques to extend Pop11.
This is used in the agent development toolkit described here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/packages/simagent.html

Poplog provides 2-D interactive graphics based on the X window system,
and some examples are available here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/figs/simagent

Information about porting and rebuilding poplog is here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/

Anyone who attempts to test poplog on Darwin and has questions
can post to comp.lang.pop, the newsgroup described here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/comp.lang.pop.faq.html

Thanks for your help
Aaron
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As stated before, the Darwin port has an assembly related issue left
unfixed. More than testers, we need someone with some Darwin background and
assembly knowledge so that issue could be fixed.

Philippe Roy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Sloman" <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: <pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: Testers wanted: Poplog (pop11,common lisp, prolog, ML) on PC+Darwin


http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/packages/simagent.html

This problem needs Darwin for i86 in order to reproduce it. We are in the
process of integrating this into an OS X built, but it won't have that
problem since it relates to a kernel call.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cherry George Mathew" <cherry@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: "Philippe Roy" <proy@conceptualspeech.com>
Cc: <pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk>; "Aaron Sloman" <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Testers wanted: Poplog (pop11,common lisp, prolog, ML) on
PC+Darwin

Philippe> As stated before, the Darwin port has an assembly
Philippe> related issue left unfixed. More than testers, we need
Philippe> someone with some Darwin background and assembly
Philippe> knowledge so that issue could be fixed.

How can I find information to re-create the problem ? I have an iBook
G3 with OSX "Panther".

Cheers,

Cherry.
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