Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:07:46PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> As far as packaging stuff up look at fgb's contrib system,
> bootstratp your self into the delightful world of 3rd party packages
> by typing:
>
> 	9fs sources
> 	/n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib
> 	contrib/gui
>
> man contrib will tell you about the tools and how to create
> packages of your own.

I will look at this. Since I use my own framework (very simple but
for cross-compiling), it will probably end in a script and a map (where
to put the stuff, with what name, owner and permissions) "fgb's contrib"
compliant.

> I have a text contrib package on there but I will remove it when you
> have your updated release working.

There is no urge ;) Normally, even LaTeX user's will be able to use this
stuff, since it's "simply" macros --- TeX uses argv[0] to know what
format to load; hence "latex" is not a program, but a hint for what
"compiled" version of the macros to put in memory.

But we will need to verify first that the new version delivers what it
is supposed to...

And the hard part is done---understanding what goes on; putting the
translation stuff apart; building libraries for duplicated things
etc.---, but I'm still cleaning things and going back to Knuth's books
to understand what to keep and what to delete in the change files. With
one or two hours per day at maximum, this will still take some
weeks (I think).

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