> I often use some small applications like period, observe, etc., which
FROG was going to supersede PERIOD but FROG wasn't completed. You can
still find PERIOD in applications/obsolete/period/. Despite its
location (see the applications/obsolete/README) there is a bootstrap and
build files present. Peter and Brad made some fixes to PERIOD recently
so I expect that you can build it in the normal way. Given that people
are still using it, should we relocate PERIOD to the main applications
tree?
I can't recall why OBSERVE is absent: oversight or intentional (e.g.
licence/copyright issues). I'd guess the former. If that's the case it
should be straightforward to take the files from the USSC release's
sources/observe/ and import them into the new scheme as described in
SSN/78 (if only to an applications/obsolete/observe/ directory).
What else was there in the "etc." that's now missing?
> Do I have to do anything special to have those applications built while
> building the other packages? Or have those applications been dropped
> from the suite for some reason?
The aim was to at least retain old code even if we weren't going to
support it ourselves. We'd also create the GNU-build files. If the
build worked, great, if not, we'd leave it.
Given the number of software items to transfer into the new build
system, no doubt that some items and documents were overlooked. In some
cases there may have been licensing issues. Unless that applies to
OBSERVE, its source should at least appear in a
applications/obsolete/observe/ directory.
Malcolm
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