Re: [Bug-apl] Profile keyword flagged as invalid

2016-12-26 Thread David B. Lamkins
Thank you. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:01:17PM +0100, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Hi David, > > fixed in SVN 832 (I hope). Should have been only a warning without an effect. > > /// Jürgen > > > On 12/26/2016 10:44 PM, David B. Lamkins wrote: > > The recent addition to the user preferences

[Bug-apl] ")copy myworkspace" doesn't work

2016-12-26 Thread Bill Heagy
Hi - debian testing or stable - ")copy myworkspace" doesn't copy functions from workspace - ")copy myworkspace myfunction" does copy "myfunction" This started in the first few versions after Version / SVN: 1.6 / 825M.

Re: [Bug-apl] ⎕PW handling

2016-12-26 Thread Kacper Gutowski
On 26 December 2016 at 20:09, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Kacper: you can now enable change of ⎕PW via the WINCH signal. This may not > work on all platforms, therefore is has to be enabled in one of your > preferences files. Works great, thanks. It's okay that it requires enabling, it's not someth

Re: [Bug-apl] Bug: ./configure --without-libapl still wants to compile library

2016-12-26 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Hi, I assume --without-libapl should be the same as --with-libapl=no, as it logically follows. I guess there is a bug either in the build system or in autoconf/automake tools. I've never written scripts for them so I can't judge; but all my previous experience building software with ./configure s

Re: [Bug-apl] Bug: ./configure --without-libapl still wants to compile library

2016-12-26 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Alexey, first of all, --without-libapl is not a valid ./configure option, and there is no mentioning of  --without-libapl in README-2-configure. Not building libapl is the default, so instead of saying --without-libapl you

Re: [Bug-apl] Profile keyword flagged as invalid

2016-12-26 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi David, fixed in SVN 832 (I hope). Should have been only a warning without an effect. /// Jürgen On 12/26/2016 10:44 PM, David B. Lamkins wrote: The recent addition to the user preferences parser causes APL to report

[Bug-apl] Profile keyword flagged as invalid

2016-12-26 Thread David B. Lamkins
The recent addition to the user preferences parser causes APL to report that the 'Profile' keyword is invalid.

[Bug-apl] Bug: ./configure --without-libapl still wants to compile library

2016-12-26 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Hi, It seems what even if I set ./configure --without-libapl the configure scripts still reports checking if we want to build libapl.so... yes -- Br, /Alexey

[Bug-apl] ⎕PW handling

2016-12-26 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Alexey, Kacper, I have made some changes related to ⎕PW in SVN 830. Alexey: you can now also specify the inital ⎕PW in your preferences file(s) instead of on the command line. Kacper: you can now enable change of ⎕PW via the WINCH

Re: [Bug-apl] How to organize programs

2016-12-26 Thread David B. Lamkins
There are a couple of existing guidelines. If you poke around in wslib5, you'll see examples of both. http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/Library-Guidelines.html This is intended for modern APLs (i.e. those which are able to load APL programs as Unicode) in general; this document links to another

[Bug-apl] How to organize programs

2016-12-26 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Hi, The question is rather silly but raised since earlier in discussion Jurgen mentioned what the workspaces is the outdate way to work with APL. So what is the current (modern) ways supported by GNU APL would be? I could imagine the organization of the program the following: 1) set of UTF-8 text