Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [TeXmacs] Axiom plugin

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> Arrrggggh!
> 
> They are just undoing the use of AXIOMsys that Joris agreed
> to the last time he updated the tm_axiom source... <sigh>
> 
> Couldn't they have at least used /usr/bin/AXIOMsys ??
> 
> Is this standard Debian policy to put such absolute
> names in products instead of update PATH or putting
> a link in a standard place?  This seems wrong to me.
> 

In general Debian strives to change upstream source as little as
possible.  That said, there is no general mechanism (at least known to
me) to dynamically update a users environment/path after a package
install, so packages generally have to cooperate on items like the
name of the executables, and these typically must go in a directory in
the standard PATH.

> About: "I haven't yet released the new Debian axiom
> with the symlink and am wondering if it is still
> advisable."
> 
> In my opinion, yes it is still advisable and the TeXmacs
> maintainer should return to the source as distributed
> by Joris.

I'll make sure the link is available for the texmacs maintainer to use
where approrpiate.

Thanks *very much* for your helpful feedback!

Take care,

> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Camm Maguire [mailto:address@hidden 
> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:11 AM
> > To: Bill. Page1 (E-mail)
> > Cc: 'chu-ching huang'; Axiom-Developer (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Axiom plugin
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > ... 
> > > Do you still have problems with compatibility between
> > > TeXmacs and Axiom on the Debian platforms? (unrelated
> > > question)
> > 
> > The Debian texmacs maintainer has beat me to it.  He has 
> > applied the following patch to texmacs for Debian, which 
> > (I've just confirmed) makes axiom thereunder work just fine:
> > 
> > diff -urNad 
> > /home/rt/debian/own/texmacs/texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/progs/
> > init-axiom.scm texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/progs/init-axiom.scm
> > --- 
> > /home/rt/debian/own/texmacs/texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/progs/
> > init-axiom.scm      2004-01-13 21:00:39.000000000 +0100
> > +++ texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/progs/init-axiom.scm        
> > 2004-01-23 21:12:22.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> >    (lazy-input-converter (axiom-input) axiom))
> >  
> >  (plugin-configure axiom
> > -  (:require (url-exists-in-path? "AXIOMsys"))
> > +  (:require (url-exists-in-path? "/usr/bin/axiom"))
> >    (:initialize (axiom-initialize))
> >    (:launch "tm_axiom")
> >    (:session "Axiom"))
> > diff -urNad 
> > /home/rt/debian/own/texmacs/texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/src/tm
> > _axiom.c texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/src/tm_axiom.c
> > --- 
> > /home/rt/debian/own/texmacs/texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/src/tm
> > _axiom.c    2004-01-13 21:00:39.000000000 +0100
> > +++ texmacs-1.0.3/plugins/axiom/src/tm_axiom.c      
> > 2004-01-23 21:12:20.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -299,8 +299,8 @@
> >      case 0: /* Axiom */
> >        dup2(p1[1],1); close(p1[1]); close(p1[0]);
> >        dup2(p2[0],0); close(p2[0]); close(p2[1]);
> > -      execlp("AXIOMsys","AXIOMsys","-noclef",0);
> > -      fatal("exec AXIOMsys");
> > +      execlp("/usr/bin/axiom","/usr/bin/axiom","-noclef",0);
> > +      fatal("exec /usr/bin/axiom");
> >      default: /* parent */
> >        close(p1[1]); close(p2[0]);
> >        axin=fdopen(p2[1],"w"); axout=fdopen(p1[0],"r");
> > 
> > I haven't yet released the new Debian axiom with the symlink 
> > and am wondering if it is still advisable.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > 
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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