Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson 
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On 07/17/08 02:05, Andreas Tille wrote:
 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
 
 Mumps is a computer language.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
 
 And there is a GPLed implementation of this at
 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm
 
 which would be really interesting to package for the Debian Med project.
 The problem is the bootstrapping procedure (you need a running GT.M to
 compile the next version) and we just have no idea how to deal with this.

IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself?

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Re: Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille 

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:


IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself?


Sure.  The problem is that there was an initial bootstrap at some
point in time and you can relay on a working gcc in Debian since
ages.  This is not the case for GT.M and even if I would have
interest to support GT.M for Debian Med because it would give us
a grip to the only professional free hospital management system
(VISTA) I could follow the arguing that introducing such complicated
steps for cornerstone software is not really welcome.  (Well
nobody did so catually but I did not provoked this argument until
now because I do not even have time to try ...)

Thanks for the hint anyway

  Andreas.

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