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[[Category: Installing]][[Category: Internals]]

Latest revision as of 04:15, 28 October 2008

This (still empty) page describes the requirements to help rewriting parts of the installation procedure of Gambit in order to make it easier to install on various systems.

Objectives

  • Have a standard process with portable defaults

Constraints

  • Allow several versions of gambit to be installed concurrently on a single host
  • Avoid name clashes with other software (i.e. gsi/gsc is also default name of some ghostscript interpreters)
  • Do not mess up with host's hierachy

Examples

Default

 ./configure && make && make install

installs in

 /usr/local/bin/gs{i,c}-$VERSION
 /usr/local/lib/gambit/$VERSION/syntax-case.scm
 /usr/local/share/doc/gambit/$VERSION

and so on

Parametrized

 ./configure --prefix=/tmp/test --bindir=/bin --gsi=gambi-VERSION --gsc=gambc  && make && make install

gives

 /bin/gambi-4.2.9
 /bin/gambc
 /tmp/test/lib/gambit/4.2.9/syntax-case.scm
 /tmp/test/share/doc/gambit/4.2.9/gambit-doc.html
 ...

Add-ons

  • Provide some subsidiary package with everything that is lacking from the original source code
    • List manipulation: filter, fold-left, etc
    • Generators: iota, etc
    • Sorts: list-sort, vector-sort, etc
    • Editors tools: gambit.el for emacs, and comparable plugins for vim, eclipse, etc
  • References: GHC's Prelude module provides a minimal yet reasonable set of features that we want...

Join the dream team

  • fetch the 4.2.8 source code (our reference for this refactoring)
  • with mercurial, join the task force's branch at the address *branch to be created somewhere*
  • hack, hack, hack
  • test installation
  • test *again*
  • submit patch
  • ???
  • Profit!