Re: [DM-dev] New Release

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 07:24, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> There is no reason we cannot support multiple systems.  As the author
> of TOC, if you would be willing to put together a distribution, I
> would be happy to release a separate package.  I would also be happy
> to learn how to keep it maintained myself as I upgrade the software
> so you don't have to redo it every release.

Excellent. We did that for the pclasses.com source tree. The only tiny=20
caveat was that in CVS we had the toc 'configure' script and Makefiles=20
and Autotoolers had to delete those and generate their own. Autotools=20
and toc have been proven to coexist sanely in the same project tree.=20
i've got a few days off week after next and i will definitely whip you=20
up a tree.

To state the main caveats up front:

=2D GNU systems only. Any variant of Linux. Has been known to run on=20
Solaris and BSD systems, provided they host GNU variants of the most=20
common Unix tools (sed, find, make, tar, etc). Cygwin might or might=20
not work. i don't think i ever got linking shared libs working on=20
Cygwin, and don't have a Windows box anymore to try it on.

=2D The variety of built-in configure checks isn't nearly as broad (but=20
it's easy to extend). That said, since the build tools target only GNU=20
systems, there aren't nearly as many compatibility checks needed.

There are numerous advantages, but i'll shut up now. :)

TTYS,

=2D-=20
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