On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:29:04PM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
My gut feeling is that the libraries will acquire more ifdefs as time goes on so trying to eliminate the ones we have is only a short-term solution.
This suggests that we should distribute the raw libraries with Hugs and have the user run convert_libraries (probably invoked through the Makefile which is probably a better way to run things anyway).
The problem is that this won't work on Windows. If they have a C compiler, then they have cpp but they don't necessarily have a usable shell.
Perhaps we could get by (for this release) with two source releases: - a .zip for Windows with converted libraries - a .tar.gz for Unix with unconverted libraries and a Makefile that runs convert_libraries We'd just need to tell the Windows users they can't change USE_DOUBLE_PRECISION if they want to use FFI. As for the long term, I'd always thought of convert_libraries as a kludge to get through the transition. I hope things will get cleaner after this release is out the door.