Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> However pamphlet files with multiple chunks interact badly with
> the make dependency processing since changing or adding a single
> chunk in a pamphlet file triggers re-extraction of all files
> dependent on that pamphlet and subseqent dependent make processing.
> To over come this, we would have modify the 'document' script so
> that it does not touch an existing file if it has not changed
> (i.e. extract the chunk to a temporary file and overwrite the
> original only if diff -q fails).

I would use "cpif" for that purpose. Norman Ramsey has already thought 
of that case.

> In the mean time, I think just renaming axiom.sty as Waldek
> suggested is not so confusing, given the discussion in the rest
> of this thread. Maybe instead of 'axiom-sty.pamphlet' something
> like 'axiom-latex.pamphlet' might be a better name with
> <<axiom.sty>= and possibly other latex-related chunks collected
> in a single pamphlet file.

I agree that LP suggests to think in terms of logical units for humans, 
but on the other hand I am still a bit old-fashioned (and maybe also 
human), since I would have hard times to look in the file system for the 
place of a particular file (which is hidden in a .pamphlet file with 
another name). In that sense pamphlet files would not fit me as a human. 
Maybe I should change ... ;-)

Ralf