We finally have the finally have all the legal problems with IBM behind us. IBM has finally released the joint IBM/RexxLA announcement concerning Open Object Rexx. You can view the announcement at the RexxLA web site as well as the Open Object Rexx home page.
Here is the final status for items received from IBM
Here is the final status for items not received from IBM
We have made some progress in transitioning the build process to the auto tools (autoconf, libtool, etc). We hit a snag with the latest GCC compiler because it uses strict C++ rules as opposed to the loose rules used by Visual C++ and older GCC versions. A lot of the code will have to be updated in order for it to compile correctly without warnings. This is going to take longer to finish than anticipated.
We are finally getting ourselves organized. We should have most organizational issues resolved by the end of January including a project charter and a board of directors in place. We are working closely with the RexxLA board of directors to make everything official.
The code for Open Object Rexx should appear on the SourceForge CVS repository soon. We need to tweak a few more items before we feel comforatable letting the public see our work but we promise it will be worth the wait. There will probably be multiple CVS modules involved but we will document them.
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Submitted by
W. David Ashley and the Open Object Rexx Project Team