[bug#27568] Bigloo update

[Kei Kebreau]

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:

> Kei,
>
> On 03/07/17 21:36, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> These two packages should be updated at the same time, as the old hop
>> won't build with the new bigloo.
>> 
>> I'd feel better if a bigloo and hop user verified that everything still
>> works as it should.
>
> I'm afraid I can't help you with that, but I can always ask annoying
> questions: why the update to a release candidate?
>

Mainly because the existing (stable?) hop wasn't building correctly and
had mysteriously absent make targets.

> The web site[1] left me more confused than I entered. The ‘file you
> should download if you want to build the Hop stable [sic] version from
> the sources’ is the even less stable-looking hop-3.1.0-pre1.tar.gz...
>

The same thing happened to me! I noticed that hop version 3.1.x only
existed in the developer's git repository on GitHub[2], so I just got
the latest available source tarball from the FTP server.

> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
> [1]: http://hop.inria.fr/home/download.html

[2]: https://github.com/manuel-serrano/hop

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