Hello, I'm sorry to hear people have had trouble checking out the SVN tree. When I ried check out, it was from a hotel where the connection was very poor but I did not have problems checking out several copy and variants of the source tree. I'm still not in a place where I can do much right now. But, I'm collecting all the suggestions here.
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On April 8, 2006 5:47 PM Frederic Lehobey wrote: | > ... | > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:25:08PM -0400, Bill Page wrote: | > > Storing binary files in a source code archive is something that | > > I have always objected to, but Tim insists on re-distributing | > > code this way. I really think we should stop doing this. | > | > Please, provide the relevant patches. This is exactly what needs | > the silver branch and what it is intended for. :-) | > | | Indeed. But these two patches will introduce two new dependencies: | both gcl and noweb would have to be installed *before* building | Axiom. Personally, I don't think that this is a problem. Tim Daly | resists. Are there any other opinions? I believe we should keep noweb. For GCL, I see two paths: (1) keep it in the source tree, but do not build it automatically: (2) go with Bill's suggestion and ditch it completely from the source tree. My preference would be (1), but I can be persuaded to do (2) if we can't make (1) work. By (1), I mean (a) if configure dectects that there is a "reasonable" GCL installed, we do not need to build our own version. Or, (b) continue doing we're already doing today. | The first patch is really most of Camm Maquire's patch to build | Axiom on Debian without re-compiling gcl. On Debian gcl is a | build dependency, just like gcc. Not all linux distro come with a pre-installed GCL; I would like we work for broader linxu distros as much as possible. I would like to see us in a position when we have a build machinery that makes it possible to Axiomn with virtually all linux flavours -- not just debian. I believe Axiom will gain a lot by doing that. | The second patch was suggested by Norman Ramsey (author of noweb) | a couple of years ago. It provides a simple awk script to allow | noweb to be used with Axiom pamphlet files without modifications | to noweb. | | Together these two patches eliminate the need to build noweb and | gcl as part of the Axiom build and thus eliminate the need for | the corresponding .tgz files in the source code archive. That is interesting. Do you have links to those patches so that we can see how we could/should consider them and work out the details with Tim? -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer