Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Requiring LaTeX

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

| > | Latex is not optional, it is not overhead, it is not waste.
| > | If latex is not installed then axiom SHOULD NOT BUILD.
|
| I must say, I don't understand that. If you type "make" that will build
| the whole system. Why cannot there be some targets like "make binaries",
| "make doc" to split that process?

My original plan -- as I tried to communicate to Tim last week -- was
pricesely that we should make the process modula so that we have the
kind you subdivision you are proposing even if "make" just ends up
doing the whole.  I have seen *successful lagre projects* (much larger
and complex than Axiom) work that way.  Axiom is painting itself in a
coerner that can only harm it.

-- Gaby