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@albertvanderhorst albertvanderhorst released this 10 Jan 11:04
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This is release 5.3 of the ciforth factory system, release date is 2016 february 14, with some of the packages that are generated from this release.

The archives lina32-5.3.0.tar.gz and lina64-5.4.0.tar.gz contain official lina releases, a combination of source , documentation and executables, as well as the texinfo source for the documentation and the .fas source for the executable. These archives were and still are distributed via https://forth.hcc.nl/w/Producten/ciforth and http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/index.html and later here in this archive.

The date git mentions deviates from the real release date because the source were copied from cvs to git after this release. It is the time this release was published on git.

The latest derived archive for MS-Windows versions is 5.2 and available in the release subdirectory and via the above urls.

lina-5.3.0.tar.gz was added later and intended to be a source distribution for a 32 bit Debian distribution. after doubts expressed that a .fas file would be a source according to Debian rules. This doubt has been addressed because ci86.gnr is present, and so are all commands and auxiliary files to use it. So lina-5.3.0.tar.gz merely there to satisfy Debian rules.

There is also a debian type release in directory release/dsc. If you have gpg, you can check that the source is signed by me, and you can regenerate the binaries yourself from that source. More important there is a deb archive that you can install on a Linux that uses .deb packaging just using "apt-get install lina_5.3.0-1_i386.deb".
This will install the documentation, the libraries and the binaries in all the right places. This version is called just lina and is 32 bit. In the future amd64 and arm will have compatible but architecture-dependant versions of the compiler.

The other compressed archives are present because github generates them automatically with a release and are best ignored. They are of dubious use, because everybody who contemplates using the ciforth factory (e.g. for creating an UEFI booting version) would undoubtedly pull the whole git archive, and of course the latest one. Neither would they be an acceptable source archive in behalf of Debian because of the presence of executables and the presence of MSDOS, booting, OSX and MS-Windows related sources.

Added to this release are snapshots of compatible lina versions for arm. They are added here because they are compatible with version 5.3.0. These are beta releases.

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