Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Requiring LaTeX

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Alfredo Portes" <address@hidden> writes:


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| In a perfect world Axiom would not have any dependency, but if it must have
| it then let the
| user install it in the system. How hard is to have latex on a system
| nowdays. I am with Tim in this, regarding that future projects will require
| latex (browser hyperdoc...). Axiom is  in LP style, Latex/Noweb is the
| current tool in Axiom to achieve this, how can Latex not be a requirement?
| 
| I understand that it makes it harder for the testing purposes on other
| systems, but I think is not that much of a problem as it sounds in this
| thread.

Here is a concrete proposal for you:  get subscribed at SF (if you're
not already) and install latex on all the non-linux systems they have
and do the testings on all of those hosts, send the build log back to me.

-- Gaby