On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Alfredo Portes wrote: | Gaby, | | I knew this part was going to be taken in another context, and by no means | I tried to underestimate the work you are doing. Plus, I do recall your | email | explaining that you did not want waste time testing on systems, when you | could focus on your research or teaching.
I think you misread what I said. I do not want to waste my time "fixing" build environments -- I for sure know how to find my way through, I just don't believe it is a good use of my time. Fixing Axiom is already a full-time job. I *do want to do the testing* -- or accept help from others to do the testing. Testing is important. [...] | I guess your point with this assignment is to show me how difficult it is. Not really. I just do not buy the stance "it is not difficult to install X Y tool on systems, _therefore_ people should do it and by the way we are not going to make it easy for people to contribute the little they can." | By no | means I wanted to say this was trivial. But if that helps with the great | work you are | doing, I would be more than glad. But I am curious, couldn't be latex be | avoided for | testing purposes, and then have it as a requirement later on??? (do latex | to build the | documentation). That is essentially what I have been saying since the begining. We are not in the business of testing latex on all pltaforms. We are primarily interested in testing Axiom. Consequently, I believe we should make it possible to allow people to test Axiom on system lacking latex. I don't see how that harms Axiom. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer