Re: [Axiom-mail] Re: noweb

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

| > Let's keep it simple.  We have Axciom developers, and axiom users.
| > Axiom developers are those who work directly on Axiom's source files.
| > Axiom users are those who install Axiom for their use.
| 
| Hmm, for the moment, developers + users is OK for me. But as I said, a
| user who writes a new library and extends Axiom need not have any
| knowledge about how Axiom is build.

I agree wholeheartly.

| However, in some sense you are
| right, extension of the Axiom library makes him a 'developer', in
| particular if he plans to give the sources to the Axiom
| project. Otherwise we don't care anyway.

Yes. Actually I'm arguing that an Axiom user who just launches axiom
for calculator-type computations, or an Axiom user who develops a
hyper-Groebner basis library for this purpose or colleagues are on the
same footing from my perspective.  However they become Axiom
developer the day they starting modifying Axiom sources.

| Maybe I just wanted to say: if someone wants to extend the Axiom
| library there is no need to download all of the Axiom sources. A few
| things would be enough. But I guess, it's too early to think about
| that.

You're probably right.

I need to get this Autoconf stuff move on.

Did you test build-improvements branch recently?

-- Gaby