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Date:Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:27:08 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: Poplog Debian Package Available 
From:bfulg 
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--- Aaron Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> The last contains your message posted to pop-forum.
> If you would rather have the email address mangled 
> please say so

No -- this is a public mail address.  No problem.

[ ... snip ... ]
> I guess this means clearly separating the stuff that
> is linux specific (eg installation scripts) from the
> stuff that is not, merging the bham stuff (including
> emacs directory) with the 'main' poplog tree,
 getting
> rid of dependency on $poplocalbin,
> etc.

Integrating the various packages would make life
a bit simpler, but it's not too bad.

One slightly strange thing was that the linux packages
include object code for the Alpha and Sun systems
(I think this is for the popvision library).  Was
this on purpose?

I think one thing that would be helpful (though
perhaps a bit long-term) would be to bundle the
"system agnostic" sources separately from the runtime
engine for the interpreter.  This way you could have
one bundle of platform-independent stuff that could
be used everywhere, along with a much smaller set
of sources that would have to be bootstrapped on each
architecture.

-Brent