[Savannah-register-public] [task #5082] Submission of Hindawi Vernacular Programming System

[Sylvain Beucler]

Follow-up Comment #10, task #5082 (project administration):

Hi,

First apologizes if our questions seems strange - keep in mind that we work
with the latin alphabet only, and do not necessarily understand well the
constraints that your project need to overcome.

It would be enlightening for us if you could explain the difference between
your approach and Unicode support (your mention of 8-bit charset is a bit
surprising).

Also we would like to better see the goal of your project and understand
where support for other languages is added: is it in keyboard input methods,
in programs input functions, in program identifiers, in programs output
functions. If I understand well, your C programs won't be compilable with a
classical gcc package, which seems a bit surprising as well. Last, explaining
what's the goal/principle of "porting Linux kernel sources to Hindi/Bangla C,
asm etc." would be interesting too.


We also need to check that your project can be run on a free operating
system.

Your project appears to rely on FreeDOS, but I also see screenshots taken
using MS Windows in your website.

We only host projects that can run on a free operating system (such as
GNU/Linux and vanilla FreeDOS).
We have adopted this policy because now that completely free operating
systems exist, we do not want to encourage users of those systems to start
using proprietary operating systems so that they can use your program.


Can you all parts of your project be ran using a stock version of FreeDOS, or
may it require proprietary components?


Regards.


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