License question

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:
> 
> default_variants +csl +html
> 
> variant csl conflicts psl description {Build Fox and CSL Lisp sources} {
> }
> 
> variant psl conflicts csl description {Fetch PSL Lisp binaries} {
> }

Do other distributions subdir psl and csl and build both?
http://reduce-algebra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/reduce-algebra/trunk/debianbuild/debian/reduce.dirs?revision=1534&view=markup
http://reduce-algebra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/reduce-algebra/trunk/debianbuild/debian/reduce.links?revision=1534&view=markup
http://reduce-algebra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/reduce-algebra/trunk/debianbuild/debian/rules?revision=1535&view=markup

If you  subdir psl and csl you can build both and remove these two variants.

> variant html description {Produce an HTML version of the help material} {
> }
> 
> variant pdf description {Build paper copy of reference manual} {
> }
> 
> variant demos conflicts psl description {Install demonstration and test programs} {
> }


If these variants are not expensive to build they could be removed as variants and added as part of the standards build.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)