Re: [Axiom-developer] version control

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > | the questions come down to 
| > | 
| > | 1) what kind of final product do you expect when you do:
| > | 
| > | cvs co ... axiom
| > | cd axiom
| > | ./configure
| > | make
| > | make install
| > | axiom
| > 
| > Any procedure that includes the first step definitely is broken if we
| > want to attain larger class of users.
| > 
| > Consequently, I propose this -- before we take over the world and we
| > make Lisp the only constitutional programming language --
| > 
| >   * get an axiom source  -- this does not mean you have to check out
| >     of CVS/SVN
| >   * ./configure && make && make install
| > 
| > The crucial difference is the first step.  The distribution tarball
| > need not contain only source files that come from the CVS/TLA/SVN repo.
| 
| you answered a different question. the question is carefully constructed.
| i'm curious to know what you believe the result of the steps outlined
| above should be.

I believe I carefully answered:  I believe the steps are broken
because the first one.

If you want to test what the distribution should be/work then say "make
distcheck" instead of simple "make", but you did not answer that
question :-) 

-- Gaby