"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| > | > Also in 'src/doc/ps' we have 'SEGBIND.ps' and 'segbind.ps'. | > | > 'segbind.ps' is a screen dump of a graphic window containing a | > | > parabola. I can not really see 'SEGBIND.ps' because it triggers | > | > Postscript stack error in ghostscript (like many other files in | > | > 'src/doc/ps' :(. | > | > | > | | > | I think all .ps files that are not referenced in any *.pamphlet file | > | (such as SEGBIND.ps and segbind.ps) should be deleted from the /ps | > | directory. | > | > Before deletion, we have to determine that they are not referenced | > at runtime through name generation on the fly. Do you know whether | > that can ever happen? | > | | I do not know and I think it might be prohibitive in time to examine | the code in sufficient detail to ensure that this is not the case but | it seems to me the benefits of cleaning up this mess out weight the | risk, especially since these files are among the problematic binary | and mixed-case files in the distribution. | | Here is one suggestion: For now we could just move all of the "unused" | files that I listed in my previous email to temporary location in the | source tree. The recent improvements to hyperdoc made by Waldek suggest | that now would be a good time in any case to have Axiom users focus | more attention on this part of the system. If problems of missing | files occur, it should be difficult to document which of the presumed | "unused" files is actually referenced dynamically (if any). I agree. I subscribe to your suggestion to move "unused" files to a "jail" directory. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
