wh-sandbox has implemented a radically different algebra build process that avoids many of the problems associated with the old "bootstrap" method. It has also implemented some significant improvements to the way the Axiom database is built. Therefore it is not clear to me if it would be possible to incorporate Martin's package in the old Silver release without first incorporating most (if not all) of the changes in wh-sandbox. Silver is essentially just the old patch-50 from the tla archives. You will recall the problems that we had last summer trying to get Martin's code built on that system.
Arghh... do not remind me :-). I spent 3 days without been able to create a live cd for Martin. But as I recall patch-50 broke something, because Martin was able to add his package using patch-49.
One could proceed by backporting all (or most) of the revisions from the build-improvements branch and the wh-sandbox sub- branch, but that would certainly be a lot of work! I think the state of the current /silver branch (almost the same as /trunk) on SourceForge is too distant from both build-improvements and wh-sandbox branches to continue to serve as the base. It would much better just to re-define it as something very close to the current wh-sandbox (or build-improvements with wh-sandbox backports).
One would think that with so many open source projects out there as examples and the great minds that read this list, a working development/release method could be achieved :-). But of course this probably has been discussed many times on this list. I just say this because I plan to work heavily on Doyen this summer and would like to know "which" Axiom should I use. By the way, what should be done with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If we cannot keep it up to date, I think we should remove it, especially now that the problems with sourceforge look like they have been solved. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
