Re: [DM-dev] New Release

[Aaron D. <aa...@fr...>]

stephan beal wrote:
> 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 
> caveat was that in CVS we had the toc 'configure' script and Makefiles 
> and Autotoolers had to delete those and generate their own. Autotools 
> and toc have been proven to coexist sanely in the same project tree. 
> i've got a few days off week after next and i will definitely whip you 
> up a tree.
> 
> To state the main caveats up front:
> 
> - GNU systems only. Any variant of Linux. Has been known to run on 
> Solaris and BSD systems, provided they host GNU variants of the most 
> common Unix tools (sed, find, make, tar, etc). Cygwin might or might 
> not work. i don't think i ever got linking shared libs working on 
> Cygwin, and don't have a Windows box anymore to try it on.
> 
> - The variety of built-in configure checks isn't nearly as broad (but 
> it's easy to extend). That said, since the build tools target only GNU 
> systems, there aren't nearly as many compatibility checks needed.
> 
> There are numerous advantages, but i'll shut up now. :)
> 
> TTYS,
> 

Yeah, I'm not sure how I'll organize CVS, but we'll work it out =)  Thanks!

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Aaron Dalton
aa...@Fr...
FreeBSD Ports Committer