[Magic-dev] Re: mpla et al.

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Mika,

 > Does this mean that mpla, mquilt, et al., are dusty decks now, or
 > have they been ported too?  (I recall they use mpack.)

They're not yet "dusty decks", and I have a port for Magic-7.1
(it's on my magic-7.1 web page).  However, when I switched to the
Tcl-based version, the static-linked mpack library was not possible
to build, and I have not yet gotten around to porting it.  I think
it would be nice to have the platools programs be Tcl object files
that would load into magic (or rather, both would load into Tcl, so
that the subroutines in magic are available to platools).  This
avoids a lot of the problems of creating an independent library of
duplicate routines.

					Regards,
					Tim

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