[Axiom-developer] RE: building wh-sandbox on Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86

[Bill Page]

On April 8, 2007 10:03 PM Gaby wrote:
> 
> Quoting Bill Page:
> 
> >
> > Perhaps wh-sandbox needs some more of the autoconf magic that
> > is now part of build-improvements?
> >
> > Can you suggest how to proceed?
> 
> Cherry picking from axiom.build-improvements is asking for
> trouble. I would have thought that merge from build-improvements
> should be done whole sale to keep in sync.

That concerns me a lot. I think that both Gaby and Waldek have done
an enormous amount of really important work on the Axiom build system
and this should continue. But for other axiom developers and axiom
users to really benefit from *both* of these efforts, I think we need
to merge the results at the current stage of development into a new
Axiom Silver distribution that builds on as many systems as possible
and which includes critical fixes to HyperDoc and some very important
fixes to Axiom's algebra.

What can I do to encourage you (Waldek and Gaby) to devote some
time to such a merge?

> If you find a problem that needs addressing please let us know
> (and even better send a patch :-).
> 

I will be glad to do that when/if I can.

Regards,
Bill Page.