--- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the developers of apt-get and yum might agree with > you. ;) But I think most developers would prefer to take care > of this themselves. > > People who want to work with Axiom without these hassles > should install the appropriate binary version.
I think autoconf will allow us to "have our cake and eat it too", so to speak. Maxima benefited tremendously from having a real configure-make-install ability and I expect Axiom will be no different. Autoconf and friends are very, very useful in my experience - we are able to automatically build a single Maxima install on three or more different lisp implementations, and provide the user with a runtime choice on which one they want to use :-). So if they want the friendlyness of Clisp or the speed of cmucl, they can make that choice on a per-session basis. I know this is impractical and maybe less interesting for Axiom, but it is a useful illustration of what can be done with autoconf. I expect using either system libraries or falling back to building included ones will be well within its abilities. IIRC BRL-CAD has some similar options, although I don't know that they implement "try system libs first and then automatically fall back to internal ones if failure" logic. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
