Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom silver branch

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hi Tim,

> Axiom as it exists now 
>  a) depends on very little
>  b) never writes outside of its own directory (not even tmp files)
>  c) builds everywhere (or tries to)

Could you live with an axiom-built-procedure that
checks the system, if something is missing, it downloads the appropriate 
files (either from their original source place or from 
axiom-developer.org/prerequisites) and installs them following (b) from 
above.

The only difference to the current Axiom would be that checking and 
installing prerequisites is done before the actual axiom-make starts.
And, the axiom archive will be smaller, since some people might have 
already installed some software.

You said that now Axiom (via gcl) depends on Emacs, but I guess you 
don't want to include emacs into axiom--main--1, do you? (Otherwise 
axiom does not "just work". ;-) )

Ralf