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[Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions
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Ralf Hemmecke |
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[Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions |
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Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:13:26 +0200 |
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We have discussed this before. The problem is that there is
no reliable version of tla for Windows.
I feared that.
Both Mike Thomas and
I have tried several different versions and they all have
problems. As far as I have been able to determine, tla is not
being actively maintained anymore, so the prospects of a good
Windows version seems small.
Maybe one day we will be using bazaar-ng since that seems to be actively
maintained by the ubuntu people.
We started using darcs for axiom--windows--1 because it works
reliably on both Linux and Windows. Of course we probably
also could have used CVS but at the time we were already
moving away from it.
Clear. We should only use CVS as a way of distributing (if at all), but
not really working with it. Its days are numbered. ;-)
Now we are also using SVN but (possibly because of the
SourceForge problem) I have not been able to do a complete
checkout of anything from the SVN repository to Windows.
Have you ever tried
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-09/msg00321.html
svn co -r1 https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk trunk
cd trunk
svn update
on Windows?
The darcs archive doesn't even appear on
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSources
so it is non-existing... ;-) ... only for people who want
to run MathAction
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MathActionRepository
I would be happy if you would correct this. I am not sure of
the best solution. Should we ignore the merging problem and
just call the darcs version the official sources for Windows?
I wouldn't. Better would be to sync them then I can declare on
AxiomSource that they are the same. And sooner or later they should
disappear anyway, because they should be merged to Gold or Silver.
(First, of course, to Silver, but a merge with Gold was easy since we
have "tla star-merge". The hard part is to sort out the conflicts.
We simply have two many source archives and potential
contributors have to ask at the axiom-developer mailing
list which one contains the blessed sources.
Yes that is a problem. What is your suggested solution?
Document on AxiomSources. That should be the place to read about our
source mess. ;-) If you bring axiom--windows--1 in sync with the tla
archive, then I add the stuff to AxiomSources. I guess, you volunteer to
be the maintainer of that branch. I haven't heard from Mike Thomas or
Tim (who are currently the maintainers of the tla axiom--windows--1).
Can I make you the maintainer of the darcs and tla versions?
If someone can prove that SVN actually does work reliably on
Windows, then maybe that would be the best option?
Probably, then axiom--windows--1 would exist as a branch on sourceforge.
But to be honest, I would rather try to avoid that and better ask for
help from developers knowledgeable in Windows to actually do the merge now.
Ralf
- [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/09/20
- [Axiom-developer] RE: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Page, Bill, 2006/09/20
- [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions,
Ralf Hemmecke <=
- [Axiom-developer] RE: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Page, Bill, 2006/09/20
- [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/09/20
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Alfredo Portes, 2006/09/20
- [Axiom-developer] RE: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Page, Bill, 2006/09/20
- [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/09/20
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/09/20
- Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Alfredo Portes, 2006/09/20
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions, Vanuxem Grégory, 2006/09/20
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows buildinstructions, Page, Bill, 2006/09/20
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: [build Axiom] updated Windows buildinstructions, Vanuxem Grégory, 2006/09/20