Re: [Axiom-developer] Pamphlet format discussion

[Bill Page]

On 7/21/07, C Y <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> Once the autoconf work becomes mainstream, this won't matter.  The
> build logic can presumably be set up such that if noweb is specified as
> the literate programming tool, the other tools never need to be touched
> by the build.  In that scenario, as long as the behavior and structure
> the point AFTER which the literate tool of choice is loaded are
> consistent, maintaining other tools need concern only those who want to
> use them.  Bill, you and Gaby shouldn't ever have to worry about it -
> no one would ask you to work on them.  At most, we might ask that they
> be listed as a configure option with enough logic to trigger them.  I'm
> hopeful that an entry of that sort would border on trivial.

Certainly I don't want to spend my time working on this, but I was
thinking more of people like Norman Ramsey and other people who
already use noweb. Why not embrace the concept of co-operating with
other open source projects instead of re-inventing the wheel? Perhaps
people would be more interested in working on the Axiom project if we
use their work rather than redoing it.

> Ideally, once these things are done they will require very little work
> as long as a working Lisp environment is present, but again it would
> matter ONLY to the people wanting to use it.  The only point at which
> it becomes a real issue is if the pamphlets go in a direction that
> noweb can't follow, and I don't see that happening for a good long
> while.

That does not seem consistent with what Tim Daly is writing.

Regards,
Bill Page.