Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi Gaby, | | > | If for the bootstrapping file configure.ac.pamplet (that should be | > | enough?) we restrict to just several code chunks of the form | > | | <<*>>= | > | code here | > | @ | > | ... | > | <<*>>= | > | other code | > | @ | > | | All these <<*>> chunks are linearly concatenated by notangle to | > give | > | the final output. | > Yes, that is what I implemented in configure.ac.pamphlet. | > | For that simple task, I am sure that it is not too | > | difficult to write a sed or awk script. If you have that script, | > I'll drop my objection -- because it means | > our bootstrapping dependency is much weaker, i.e. only traditional | > tools. | | Last night I saw that Automake depends on Perl. I am much more fluent | in Perl. And Perl runs und Window, too. I believe a simple notangle | replacement for the configure files would be much easier in Perl. Do | you allow me to write it in Perl? Or is that dependency already too | strong?
That would be a good thing, at least. Many thanks for your feedback. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
