Re: noweb requires pascal compiler? (formerly policy weekly)
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 fog@perosa.alpcom.it wrote:
> Hi (Christian),
>
> I found that in the latest policy-weekly:
>
> Some packages like noweb need to depend/suggest a pascal-compiler and we
> have at least two pascal compilers now: gpc, and p2c. With that, I think it
> would be good to have this virtual package. (Note, that we already have
> virtual packages for `c-compiler' and `fortran77-compiler'.)
>
> I am the maintainer of noweb: can you explain me why noweb suggest a
> pascal-compiler? The fact is that noweb oughta suggest *every* compiler
> for *every* language (it's pretty generic and works with any
> language...).
>
> Can we have a meta-virtual-package "compiler" that is the virtual
> package for the virtual packages c-compiler fortran77-compiler and so
> on? (Oh, I was obviously joking... ;)
Oops! Sorry, but it looks like I mixed up a few similar things: In the
thread about the new VP pascal-compiler (Nov 97, on debian-devel), someone
referred to "fweb" as an example package that depends on several other
compilers.
So "noweb" does not have to depend on pascal-compiler :-)
Does someone know of another package which will have to depend/suggest
pascal-compiler? If not, we probably don't need this virtual package.
Thanks,
Chris
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