MUMPS V1 from Raymond Douglas Newman

current version: 1.4
website: www.mumps.org (mv1.mumps.org after 13 Nov 2010)
platforms: Free BSD, Linux (FOSS)

Ray Newman has donated this version of FOSS MUMPS to the MUMPS Community. It will become the reference model for other MUMPS platforms to emulate.

Specifically, the new MUMPS Development Committee will be using MUMPS V1 as its reference implementation. It will be used both to demonstrate that approved extensions to MUMPS can be implemented and also to try out proposals before they are approved so we can expose and correct flaws in the proposals. Many thanks to Ray Newman for generously agreeing to let us use his work in this fashion, which we hope will be of benefit to the community (and for donating the mumps.org domain name for the use of the MUMPS Users' Group).

Excellent choice - it's a very basic implementation of most of the standard. It's not cluttered with non-standard features. Although it has some glitches, it is a great starting point.

Terry, any glitches you can report would be extremely helpful. Eventually, Larry Landis will launch the discussion in Station 3 - MUMPS Reference Implementation, and we'll have a more active software lifecycle for it, but for now we could collect information about MUMPS v1 here, including a to-do list.

I'm personally hoping to see MV1 implement SSVNs and MWAPI

Can someone help me get MUMPSV1 compiled on Ubuntu 10.04? I have zero C skills. Help would be appreciated.

About a year ago I got it compiled on an earlier version of Ubuntu. My guess is that parts of the C compiler are missing. I checked the installation and it seems to be there. The instructions are to:

make clean - works
make depend - generates error listed below.
make all

It runs into trouble on make depend. What package is mkdep a part of? Below is a snip of just the first error:

Depending in compile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tlwiechmann/Projects/OpenSource/Paideia/MumpsSystem/MUMPSV1/mumps-1.50.01-src/compile'
mkdep -I../include dollar.c eval.c localvar.c parse.c routine.c
make[1]: mkdep: Command not found
make[1]: *** [depend] Error 127

Larry Landis says he's going to help you.

Terry,

I am building a 10.04 machine for the purpose of supporting this effort.

If you are interested in accessing this machine, send me a note and your
public SSH key (and the username you prefer).

Cheers,
--ldl (ldlandis@gmail.com)

Jollis,

Some of the SSVN stuff is there - see http://mv1.mumps.org/docs.html#SSV


Ray

Rick, Larry, et al,

We need a repository of a distro for each known OSX, FreeBSD, linux, etc...
Any suggestions as to where this should go.

Ray