On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:09 AM Tim Daly wrote: > ... > > Waldek Hebisch wrote > > > > The patch I wrote changed the paphlet file. I admit that I did > > not use dvi viewer to check formatting, but since the parts I > > changed follow textual format using only text terminal should be > > OK. > > ummm, well, the pamphlet file IS the source code. if you changed > the lisp code would you post a change without trying it? if you > changed the latex would you post a change without trying it? > > it's all 'one thing', not code+documentation. > think of latex as a compiler stage. > always latex the sources, always compile and run the sources. > > (gaby and bill disagree with me) >
Actually I don't think we disagree. At least I do agree that running latex on the noweave output from a modified pamphlet file is an essential step in creating a literate program. The only issue that I recall debating is whether it makes sense to always perform this noweave/latex step even when you know that no changes have been made, e.g. when trying to compile the Axiom system from an unmodified source distribution on a new system (which may or may not have latex installed). I believe there are practical instances (such as the case of the SourceForge compile farm) where not being able to disable the generation of the human readable documentation is quite inconvenient. For that reason I think that it makes sense to provide a 'make' option that omits this step when desirable. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
