[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion |
Date: |
21 Jul 2007 03:42:15 -0500 |
address@hidden writes:
| Bill writes:
| >>> Integrating noweb into Axiom to support the current pamphlet file
| >>> format seems entirely reasonable to me. I think calling noweb as a
| >>> system supplied utility is the best approach
|
| Tim writes:
| >> In the current system the result would be the same from the user
| >> perspective. In future planned use this would not be the case. Can
| >> you state in one or two sentences either your advocacy of noweb or
| >> your objection to native
|
| Bill writes:
| > noweb exists, works as required and is maintained by someone else.
| > Rewriting basic tools is a waste of current and future resources. I
| > don't know what "future planned use" involves but in my opinion more
| > radical changes in literate programming philosophy are required than
| > can be accomplished by changes of this kind.
|
|
|
|
| So, two points then.
|
| 1) "Rewriting basic tools is a waste of current and future resources."
|
| The code already exists in the current silver to tangle pamphlet files
| using either noweb or latex format. The weave function already exists
| in a local version, enabling context-specific processing of pamphlets
| at runtime rather than as now, only at build time. For example, we could
| dynamically fetch partial content from a pamphlet in response to a
| )help command.
|
| There are no "current and future" resources. This is a volunteer effort
| and we only get to decide our own resource usage. Objecting to the use
| other people make of their time isn't a topic of debate.
The objection, as I understand it, is not to your spending your time
playing with your toy. The objection as, I understand it, is against
having the common toy (Axiom) move to duplicating functionalities
(already provided by external tools) and having to maintain the source
code. It is a waste of resource.
-- Gaby
- [Axiom-developer] Re: Pamphlet format discussion, (continued)
- [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, daly, 2007/07/21
- [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, daly, 2007/07/21
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion,
Gabriel Dos Reis <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, Bill Page, 2007/07/21
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, C Y, 2007/07/21
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, Stephen Wilson, 2007/07/21
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, Bill Page, 2007/07/21
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, C Y, 2007/07/21
Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/07/21
[Axiom-developer] Re: Pamphlet format discussion, Bill Page, 2007/07/21
[Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, daly, 2007/07/21
[Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion, daly, 2007/07/21