Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Furthermore, make install should not simply overwrite a present fricas > > installation, but rather ask, don't you think? > > > > That would be unusual.
OK. > > > Concerining release, I think it would be good to provide some bianaries. > > > I > > > can create tarballs for i386 and amd64 Linux -- I think that such tarballs > > > should work on most Linux distributions. Given sbcl performance I think > > > that > > > such tarballs should be sbcl based. YES. By the way: wouldn't it make sense to keep the svn files, so users can type svn up and get newer versions? It's not 100% reliable, but should work most of the time. > > > I am not sure about other package forms: distribution specific packages > > > are nicer than generic tarball, but given that there are several > > > different distributions it looks like too much work for too little > > > effect. I think that debian and rpm would be good. I can do debian hardy. > > I have relatively recent Cygwin binaries (from revision 410). Building a > > newer revision takes a few hours, but I can do it. > Do you use the mkdist script? That way you can bootstrap using fastest > Lisp on different machine. For relase binaries should correspond > to sources, otherwise there is too much confusion. Of course. Only the windows box I have is *very* *very* slow. > > > > > Another request: could you add a configure option to install the emacs > > mode, if > > emacs is present? (I simply do not know how to do it.) It works with gnu > > emacs > > 21 and 22, probably not with xemacs. > > > > fricas*.el should be installed in a directory below the emacs site-lisp > > directory, ie., usually /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/fricas. > > > > > > Will look into that. Great. Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
