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Externalize non-engine related Hercules components #76

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Fish-Git opened this issue Dec 18, 2017 · 1 comment
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Externalize non-engine related Hercules components #76

Fish-Git opened this issue Dec 18, 2017 · 1 comment
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Fish-Git commented Dec 18, 2017 •
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More non-engine related Hercules components need to be externalized.

Some components are already externalized, such as Crypto, decNumber, SoftFloat and telnet, but many others still need to be done. I recently made significant changes to Hercules's Rexx support which should also have been externalized at that time but wasn't. Many other areas of Hercules need to be broken out and externalized (made into a separate External Package) as well. Those that spring to mind are:

  • Crypto
  • decNumber
  • SoftFloat
  • telnet
  • Rexx support
  • Message handling
  • Panel display
  • Command processing
  • Utilities
  • Config file processing
  • External GUI support
  • Device support
  • Channel subsystem
  • ZLIB support
  • BZIP2 support
  • PCRE support
  • Other?

The overall long term goal is to eventually reduce Hercules to just the "engine" responsible for all of the architectural emulation side of things. Everything else would be external to Hercules-proper. This allows new emulators to be more easily written by simply linking the existing Hercules engine with a different set of external components (as well as for each external component to "evolve" separately on their own).
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PoC-dev commented Jan 22, 2021

Maybe externalize the 3705 code as a separate project, being properly attached to Hercules via a CTC configuration?

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