Robert wrote: > > Do you think it is okay to manually edit the various build scripts to > > make them build as desired and then just record what was edited in the > > SPKG.txt file? > > The route we have traditionally gone down is to place patch files in > a "patches" directory and then apply them at compile time to whatever > needs to be changed.
Okay, I will do this then. > Due to the circular nature of building ant, let us assume as a first > task that users have a (recent) JDK + ant. Hopefully some of the > dependancies can be mitigated if we avoid supporting really old > version of java. Okay. > If it looks like there are going to be several java-based spkg's in > Sage, then I'd suggest making a java-deps package with the "common" > ones, completely self-contained and build-able from source with the > above. The jars would be placed in $SAGE_ROOT/local/java, and used/ > copied from there to the appropriate places by the jmol (and other > spkg) build scripts. For now then I will keep all dependencies inside the jmol-src spkg. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---