Control: block -1 by 807636 Control: block -1 by 807637 Control: tags -1 + pending On 11-Dec-2015, Ben Finney wrote: > So there will be separate ‘inform6-compiler’ and ‘inform6-library’ > source packages, getting source tarballs from (respectively) David > Kinder's ‘Inform6’ compiler repository, and your ‘inform6lib’ > library. The version strings are derived from the releases from > those repositories. I've now formally announced the intent to create those packages (Debian BTS #807636 and #807637). > If the confusion over authoritative releases and version strings > can be resolved by the Inform 7 developers, I might be able to > make better use of your extensive packaging work. Meanwhile I'm working toward using what I can from ‘inform6unix’ at version “6.33.1”, when that is released. > So ‘/usr/share/inform6/library/’ (not ‘modules’) is the installed > location for the Inform 6 standard library files from > ‘inform6-library’. I have constructed a Makefile for ‘inform6-compiler’ such that it expects the standard library there, and ‘inform6-library’ installs the files there. I have modified your ‘inform.1’ manual page and derived a ‘inform6.1’ manual page, for installation from the ‘inform6-compiler’ package. > I'm nearing completion of the packaging. As you requested, I'll wait > until you announce a “6.33.1” release before finalising this work. To be clear, I don't expect any of this to affect or delay your imminent release of version “6.33.1” of ‘inform6unix’! I'm already dealing with that code base as it is; further changes can wait for another version (we won't run out of numbers :-) -- \ “I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or | `\ anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic.” —Albert | _o__) Einstein, unsent letter, 1955 | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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