On September 1, 2006 6:33 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Tim Daly wrote: > | > | Latex is not optional, it is not overhead, it is not waste. > | > | If latex is not installed then axiom SHOULD NOT BUILD. > |
I seems to me that Tim is like "the man who mistook his hammer for a house". ;) > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > | I must say, I don't understand that. If you type "make" > | that will build the whole system. Why cannot there be some > | targets like "make binaries", "make doc" to split that > | process? > > My original plan -- as I tried to communicate to Tim last week -- > was precisely that we should make the process modular so that > we have the kind of subdivision you are proposing even if "make" > just ends up doing the whole. I have seen *successful lagre > projects* (much larger and complex than Axiom) work that way. > Axiom is painting itself in a corner that can only harm it. > Silver is the logical "escape route" for me. :) I will be glad to do everything I can to support it's continued development along the lines proposed above. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer