Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Requests for discussion

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

| Hi Gaby,
| 
| > | If for the bootstrapping file configure.ac.pamplet (that should be
| > | enough?) we restrict to just several code chunks of the form
| > | | <<*>>=
| > | code here
| > | @
| > | ...
| > | <<*>>=
| > | other code
| > | @
| > | | All these <<*>> chunks are linearly concatenated by notangle to
| > give
| > | the final output.
| > Yes, that is what I implemented in configure.ac.pamphlet.
| > | For that simple task, I am sure that it is not too
| > | difficult to write a sed or awk script. If you have that script,
| > I'll drop my objection -- because it means
| > our bootstrapping dependency is much weaker, i.e. only traditional
| > tools.
| 
| Last night I saw that Automake depends on Perl. I am much more fluent
| in Perl. And Perl runs und Window, too. I believe a simple notangle
| replacement for the configure files would be much easier in Perl. Do
| you allow me to write it in Perl? Or is that dependency already too
| strong?

That would be a good thing, at least.

Many thanks for your feedback.

-- Gaby