Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > > I disagree with the idea that writing to /dev/null should be banned.
| > 
| > But isn't /dev/null quite Unix-specific? It basically means that in 
| > order to build Axiom one must have a Unix-like environment. Not that I 
| > want to make the build process more complicated, but I am just curious 
| > how difficult it would be to build Axiom without mingw or cygwin.
| 
| The use of ${TMP}/null rather than /dev/null is intentional.

I know it is intentional.  However, I seriously question the decision
behind it. 

Anyway, currently ${TMP}/null is useless one build noweb.

| Axiom does not write outside of it's directory subtree for any reason.
| Following this philosophy it cannot write to /dev/null, which may not
| even exist on certain platforms such as windows. 

That is close to theology.  /dev/null is very particular and must be
exempted from the general rule.

Which "flavour" of windows that can built Axiom (with current build
system) and does not have /dev/null?

-- Gaby