Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 04/09/2006 05:34 AM, Bill Page wrote: | > 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? | | We actually have (at least) two types of people. | 1) Axiom users | 2) Axiom developers | | I guess, Axiom users are usually happy if they can download a binary | package for their machine that works without a problem.
Indeed. For such users, we should not require checkout from SVN tree. We should be able to provide binaries or pristine sources they can build from. When back to work place, I will propose a plan that consists in building weekly snapshots for non-core developers users. | Unfortunately, we don't have a person who is willing to maintain such | a collection of binaries. Somebody interested in that? | | So some Axiom users have to become "Axiom builder", i.e. they have to | download the sources and type "./configure; make; make install". 100% agreed. [...] | Well, but not all people use DEBIAN. How would other people be easy | with not having gcl and noweb in their Axiom distribution? I'm not proposing this seriously, but thought it worths mentioning: in the Perl community, the updated can compute the dependencies, and automatically download the missing bits (if permitted). Food for thought. [...] | Ah, yes, wasn't there someone who wanted to write some | autoconf/automake stuff for Axiom? yup, me :-/ I can't do all things at the same time; we have to work gradually. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
