( ESNUG 326 Item 8 ) ---------------------------------------------- [8/25/99]
From: "Tom Harrington" <tharring@ford.com>
Subject: SynPerl Is No Longer Supported; Use Jeff Solomon's SPP CLI Instead
John,
I'm leaving my job at Ford effective 8/20. I don't have a new email address
to add, because I'm not going to be doing Synopsys-related work anymore.
Greg Mann is also leaving Ford to become a pastor of a church. ESNUG has
been a great list, thanks a lot for your efforts in running it.
One final note before we're out the door --
I don't know how many people are currently using Synperl, but with our
changes of careers, we don't plan on updating it any more. I would
recommend that anyone who wants to combine Perl and Synopsys take a look at
Jeff Solomon's SPP, at <http://www.stanford.edu/~jsolomon/SPP/>. Jeff was
obviously thinking along the same lines as me when he wrote SPP, but he
took it a step further with a really cool Perl command-line interface to
Synopsys tools. Jeff says that he plans to continue supporting SPP, so I
encourage everyone to give it a look.
The most recent (and final) version of Synperl can be found at
<ftp://ftp.rmi.net/pub2/tph/synperl/synperl.tar.Z>. It still works,
but it's a dead project at this point. If anyone's interested in
taking up development on their own, they can contact me at tph@acm.org.
But with SPP around it's probably not worth the time, unless you want
to take it in a direction that's very different from SPP...
Best of luck to you and everyone in ESNUG!
- Tom Harrington
Ford Microelectronics Colorado Springs, CO
[ Editor's Note: I was bummed to read this. Tom & Greg did a lot of good
bug reporting, etc., over the years. They'll be missed. :^( - John ]
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