Re: openpackages.org

   From: Harlan Stenn <[email protected]>
   Sender: [email protected]

   I'm also really curious to look at CONS as an alternative to make as I hear
   CONS has support for syncing with remote CVS repositories, which could be a
   really good thing for users/developers of ARK (and PIKT and NTP).

Harlan:

I haven't looked at CONS.  But I think that it would have to be a really,
really significant improvement over standard make for us to begin requiring
its use for ARK (or PIKT or NTP).  It's still another package for the user
to fetch, build, and install.  Are those steps as easy as for current (GNU)
make?

PIKT is now available for ten different OSes.  Does CONS run on all OSes,
or all that matter?

Also, I can see where syncing with the ARK CVS repository might be a good
thing, but I'm not so sure with PIKT (or NTP?).  Naturally, syncing with a
CVS repository is optional, right?

Berto

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