Hi Peter,
I think the reference to 'Aldor folks' above is optimistic - I'd like
to get a few more people helping with development (this is an
optimistic plea for interested parties, to get involved btw).
Yes, would be supergood to have more developers, but it's somewhat of a
hen-egg-problem. Nobody can get interested in Aldor if he/she doesn't
know about the advantages of Aldor. I'm afraid that FriCAS will not help
much. I try to have an eye on the generation of libfricas.al so that
Aldor is at least usable together with FriCAS, but what is needed is a
kind of killer application that shows why Aldor is good. Now many people
jump on the Julia train simply because they see faster development
there. It's hard to say how one can best advertise Aldor to other
compiler developers.
Anyway, I hadn't noted the impact of maintainer mode. If it's easier
to work without it, then it's not a problem to drop it from the
github configure.ac.
Oh, I think, the problem is not maintainer mode, but only me. I used to
always start from a clean checkout and ran ./autogen.sh. It had never
been a problem until I tried yesterday. Since you have included the
Makefile.in, I haven't compiled Aldor myself. I just thought, it would
be good if ./autogen.sh really uses the installed autotools version of
my system and generates what is needed or tells me which versions of
automake, autoconf, libtool and whatever I must have installed to build
Aldor.
For people who are just interested in using aldor, the pregenerated
Makefile.in (and other stuff) are just fine. And maybe it then makes
more sense to switch from the default (that maintainer-mode is enabled)
to maintainer-mode is disabled, i.e. maintainers (you) would have to add
--enable-maintainer-mode. Maybe that is not a too big burden for you,
but makes the life of Aldor users easier. Nobody should have to know
about maintainer mode unless he/she is a Aldor developer.
Thank you for still keeping Aldor alive,
Actually I wonder where you are heading too. I see several commits
connected to Java. Do you aim at a .as --> .java translation?
Ralf
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