Factor is a stack based programming language (Forth style). It has gained some sort of momentum lately. Since source snapshots are released pretty frequently, some sort of dev-lang/factor-git package would be enough until 1.0 is released. Source is available under git://factorcode.org/git/factor.git repo. Reproducible: Always
Hmm... sad this is only git-access and no snapshots for download Maybe I'm gonna try to write a git-ebuild, we'll see ...
(In reply to comment #1) > Hmm... sad this is only git-access and no snapshots for download > Maybe I'm gonna try to write a git-ebuild, we'll see ... Snapshots are available from http://gitweb.factorcode.org/ separately for commits. Check latest build commit from (ref http://factorcode.org/): http://builds.factorcode.org/download?os=linux&cpu=x86.32 http://builds.factorcode.org/download?os=linux&cpu=x86.64
The whole thing looks like a sandbox: - you fetch a source ('git clone' or 'wget && tar -x') - built bootstrap VM ('make && build-support/factor.sh bootstrap') - ready to use ('./factor -i=./factor.image') As far as I understand you can't easily install it systemwide: - factor tries to lookup vocabularies in current directory (eases playing and navigation) Do you have easy way to install it? - binds to current CPU tightly (not a concern for a research project) > Checking for multimedia extensions... SSE4.2 detected > Loading resource:basis/cpu/x86/sse/sse.factor > Building with POPCNT support Thus we could install: - C++ VM systemwide, seems it does not make much sense - C++ VM + compiler (aka boot.image), better, but due to language instability has limited use as well. - everything, needs an easy way to install the thing If you still need an ebuild I'll try to make something.
