Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

| Hi Bill, hello Gaby,
| 
| Look at this...
| 
| http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-12/msg00262.html

Many thanks.
Obviously, there have been many talks about this noweb thingy.  I just
don't understand why it lingers for so long.

| I would even say: Throw away the noweb sources, throw away this awk
| script and rather go to the Axiom sources and correct a usage of an
| undefined chunk. Why would one want to have undefined chunks in the
| first place?

If people agree that the undefined chunks are bugs, then this whole
noweb stuff is an unfortunate mystifying coverup.

| See also
| 
| http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-12/msg00247.html
| 
| That is a bug. Ahm, was a bug, because "noweb 2.11 - released 6 April
| 2006" (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/dist/noweb/CHANGES) seems
| to have corrected it. I've not yet time to check 2.11, though.

Do you think you will have a chance to test it soon?

-- Gaby