Ralf, On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:31 PM you wrote:
> ... > What speaks so much against just adding .tex? > Portability? Look at the output of > > cd build-improvements > find . -name '*.*.pamphlet' > > Is there a plan to rename them all? > Ugh! You are right. Despite Gaby's implication, I can not think of any file system in use today where we might want to run Axiom that does not permit multiple dots in file names. But yes, I think Tim did promote a plan that would (eventually) change most of these names. For example I think all the .input test files would likely be collected as chunks within a single testing "volume" .pamphlet. However pamphlet files with multiple chunks interact badly with the make dependency processing since changing or adding a single chunk in a pamphlet file triggers re-extraction of all files dependent on that pamphlet and subseqent dependent make processing. To over come this, we would have modify the 'document' script so that it does not touch an existing file if it has not changed (i.e. extract the chunk to a temporary file and overwrite the original only if diff -q fails). In the mean time, I think just renaming axiom.sty as Waldek suggested is not so confusing, given the discussion in the rest of this thread. Maybe instead of 'axiom-sty.pamphlet' something like 'axiom-latex.pamphlet' might be a better name with <<axiom.sty>= and possibly other latex-related chunks collected in a single pamphlet file. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
