On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Bill Page wrote: | PS. On a related issue. The more I think about the 'zips' | directory in the Axiom distribution the more I think it was a | ReallyStupid (tm) invention. Why take a source code tarball from | another project (gcl) and stick it into the Axiom repository? | If we really need a copy of gcl, why don't we just add it properly | into the repository as source code? Why do we work around the | capabilities of the source code control system by saving the | tarball and patches against it, having to apply these patches | during the build instead of just committing these patches to | Axiom's version of gcl in the repository?
I don't know :-) In fact, I would really prefer to avoid the situation where Axiom maintains its own forks of GCL and noweb. However, as per the build-improvements branch, I think we no longer apply patches against the tarballs. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
