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


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