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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Wolfgang Jansen wrote:

> is a the impossibility of installing TeXmacs because
> of errors in C++ code an important bug?
These kinds of bug are as much bugs in the GNU toolchain
as these are TeXmacs's C++ bugs.


> Half year ago I tried to install TeXmacs on SUN from sources
> (the existing binary is rather old). Installation failed
> because of errors in C++ code. My bug report from 12/14/07 seems
> have to be forgotten: the last version just downloaded fails as well.
> So, I still work with the holy trinity emacs/latex/xdvi.
It's hard to debug autoconf-based makefiles, and if we
don't have the appropriate machines and systems, it's
even pretty impossible.

Thus it's likely that SUN machines are used by very
few people among TeXmacs users, otherwise people
would have contributed a solution.


I'm sorry I have to repeat again the same thing,
but for issues like this, we *need* the help from
users (i.e. not only bug reports: hacking and debugging,
too), for otherwise, we would need to spend all our time
on such issues rather than on the main bulk of the software.

Thus: we cannot afford spending very much time
on such issues, especially in a context where
the problem is also in dealing with debugging
the autoconf / GNU toolchain mess, and in
circumstances where, as well, users don't
want to / cannot help on this.


> TeXmacs has lost at least one possible user,
> and I warned my students to use such a buggy software.
This was not a very sensible idea, for as soon as
your students use TeXmacs on a widely spread UNIX
brand (e.g. Ubuntu), it works perfectly.