[PPL-devel] Re: RFC: packaging the PPL for RedHat and Debian

[Roberto Bagnara]

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>
>> This package would have to depend on the availability of all 5 Prolog
>> systems and, in perspective also of OCaml, Java, Mathematica, ...
>> We need another idea.
>>
> Why does this interfaces-package depend on those systems - isn't it the 
> other way round (if one intends to use PPL)? But ...

You may need the language X development environment installed for
installing the X-PPL interface.  If you package the interfaces X-PPL,
Y-PPL and Z-PPL together you may end up with the situation where the
user is only interested in X-PPL but is required to have also Y
installed in order to install the single interfaces package.
This is something we want to avoid right from the start.
Cheers,

     Roberto

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Prof. Roberto Bagnara
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Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
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