Re: [Swarm-Support] Swarm Status

[Steve Railsback]

Rob Britton wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I'm wondering, is Swarm still actively worked on? I noticed that a new
> version hasn't been released in 5 years!

Hello-

The positive way to look at this is that Swarm is quite stable. Actually 
it never was the intent of Swarm (as I understand) to keep growing and 
adding stuff. Instead, our focus with our limited resources has been to 
keep it working as various new operating systems, compilers, etc. come out.

There has been one long-term effort by Scott Christley to integrate 
Swarm with new MacIntosh operating systems. That would be the only 
change that adds significant new capabilities.

And currently we are working on a new way to access Swarm: a Linux 
operating system image with Swarm installed, for use in VirtualBox, 
software that allows you to run the Linux image inside other operating 
systems such as Windows. And this image will include the ability to 
produce Windows executables of Swarm programs, via the MinGW compiler. A 
32-bit version is now ready to test, but a 64-bit version is proving 
more of a challenge. Marcus Daniels is doing the work.

Steve Railsback