Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: texmacs installation problem

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > > > Note: Cygwin setup installed guile-1.6.0 by default and
> > > > this of course causes problems with texmacs installation.
> > > 
> > > I plan to investigate compilation on Cygwin soon, since there seem to
> > > be a lot of problems at the moment. That will probably lead to the
> > > production of one more patch and an update on my website.
> > 
> > Thanks. Maybe you can improve the following page too, when ready:
> > 
> >     http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html
> > 
> > The page is not yet officially listed, but we will do this as soon as
> > it becomes sufficiently suitable for non-expert users.
> 
> Some time ago you seemed willing to hand over administration of the
> website to a contributor (I believe it was Alvaro).

No, that was Pablo.

> I see gnu.org[1] has an CVS accessible[2] version of the website
> (though it is very old).
> 
>    [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/texmacs/
>    [2] 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs//software/texmacs/?cvsroot=www.gnu.org
> 
> Why not move the maintenance of the website to Savannah? There are
> many things I would like to fix on it, and we could also use it
> directly as a repository for user contributions.

In fact, I would like the future website to be written with TeXmacs.
Indeed, I want to work towards a situation where all documents
other than programs are written in TeXmacs and converted to other
formats when necessary. Notice that, a priori, TeXmacs can perfectly
be used as an editor of dynamic web pages. It suffices to add a little
bit of specialized markup and implement the necessary conversion tools.

So if you want to contribute to the future website for TeXmacs,
then this can actually be done already using our online documentation
system; it suffices to put it in a special directory "web".
However, we should first discuss a new structure for the site.
Pablo had some ideas on that and so do I.

Also, the priority is not the website, but rather version 1.0.1.
You promised me several things for that version, so it would be nice
if you could finish that first. After that, we will have a discussion
about the website.

> You could easily synchronize the texmacs.org website with the CVS
> using a tool like sitecopy (granted you have FTP access to
> texmacs.org).

Yes, I can discuss this with the maintainers of texmacs.org.

> And we could probably arrange domain name transfer with
> the admins at gnu.org.

We'll see; I just paid for two more years for the current IP.
Also, it is out of question to change the rules of the game,
as long as we do not have any tools for usuage statistics on Savannah.
In any case, all this is not urgent, so I prefer to slowly move on.

What you can do though is improve the Html output filter and
make it really great. This is something which is in the Macaulay 2
contract anyway and an important part of the proposed scheme for
improving the website.