Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Compiling Axiom on FreeBSD

[Mark Murray]

root writes:
> Well, I'd consider our noweb patches to be a fork only if we decided
> to distribute them in some independent form. Since we only use it
> within the project and don't "advertise" it as a separate package I'd
> characterize it as an "adaptation" rather than a "fork". But it hardly
> matters.

Stuff made by noweb goes into mnt/$SYS/bin. Is that used at run-time?
If the user already has noweb installed, which one gets used by 1) the
user and 2) by Axiom? This comes down to $PATH issues, and what Axiom
tries to do.

> I'd much rather the projects integrate the patches as it means that I
> don't have to maintain patches but, as you say, there are sometimes issues.

:-)

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