Re: [Texmacs-dev] Disastrous boot time for new versions

[Ralf Treinen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:55:45AM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> > > In last resort, we may include the whole scheme implementation
> > > in our sources, or statically link it with TeXmacs, as we already do.
> > 
> > Please don't do that, it would be a waste of bandwidth for everyone
> > who gets the schememe implementation from independent source. Plus
> > the burden for you to synchronize with new upstream versions of
> > scheme.
> 
> I don't agree: we do this for the binary packages that *we* provide.
> In standard distributions, like Debian or Mandrake, the packagers may
> choose not to follow this convention, and rather add some dependencies.

But you would have the  complete scheme source tree as a subtree of the
texmacs source, wouldn't you?

-Ralf.