Aaron (and others),
I have a Debian package of Poplog available at my
web site:
http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/poplog/debian
The only file of intereset to most people is the
*.deb file, but the other components are there for
what it's worth. (Aaron, if you think it useful,
perhaps you could copy the poplog_15.53e-1_i386.deb
into the debian directory at your main poplog site.)
The advantage of using this version over the standard
Birmingham tarball is that it declares package
dependencies on libraries required to run Poplog,
integrates the Emacs mode into Debian's core emacs
package, and sets things up such that typical Debian
and Linux tools can find the libraries, documentation,
and other goodies using standard tools.
The main thing I dislike about the current package is
that it is not generated from source files, but is
rather just a repackaging of Aaron's tarball. This
leads to two problems:
1. The process of moving the files around is
something
of a waste of time (though this can easily be
scripted to avoid the tedium).
2. This package does not provide a good platform
for attempting to support other architectures under
Debian (e.g., Alpha and Sparc/Sun systems) that are
known to work in other configurations.
In a perfect world it would be possible to bootstrap
Poplog under new architectures through some published
technique. Perhaps this is currently possible (I have
not spent enough time searching this out).
At any rate, I'm quite happy with my initial
impression
of the package, and would welcome comments from any
brave Debian users willing to try installing it.
Thanks,
-Brent
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