Re: inform vs inform6-compiler

Ben Finney <[email protected]> Sat, 31 May 2025 15:16:24 +1000

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On 20-May-2025, Alexandre Detiste wrote:

> And that now get weird/awesome:  The new "missing-breaks"
> job tell me there is already another "inform" under another name:
> inform6-compiler

That's right. The versioning of the compiler, versus the standard library,
have diverged for a long time, and so the compiler is now separately
packaged from the standard library.

Also, confusingly, Inform now names two utterly incompatible languages,
from the same upstream project (Inform 6 versus Inform 7); so “Inform” is
no longer enough to specify what compiler and standard library we are
packaging.

So, the current packages are:

* inform6-compiler
* inform6-library

and now the ‘inform’ package is obsolete, replaced (as well as can be) by
‘inform6-compiler’.

On 20-May-2025, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Hi. It looks like the old package generates "inform-docs"
> but the new one does not. So, the new one is not an exact
> drop-in for the old.

This is true. The documentation that was installed as ‘inform-docs’ turned
out, on inspection, to have insufficient grant of license from all
copyright holders to distribute as free software. So, I'm omitting it from
‘inform6-compiler’.

On 20-May-2025, Alexandre Detiste wrote:

> Is "inform" purely an outdated copy of inform6-compiler ?

Effectively, yes.

> Can this duplicate package simply be removed ?

I can request that, yes.

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