Proposal singular-3.0.0-1

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Oliver Wienand wrote:

> Hello
> 
>> The binaries are working.  I have no Emacs installed so I cannaot
>> test the Emacs version.  Source package is missing, cannot try a
>> rebuild.
> 
> 
> Now I have packaged the sources. They are also avaible via our small
> cygwin package repository. For more Information:
> 
> http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wienand/singular

The link at this site doesn't work.
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/devel/WIN/Cygwin
                                                           ^^^^
Should be:
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/devel/WIN/cygwin

And the source file is not available:

File not found

You tried to access the address 
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/devel/WIN/cygwin/release/singular-base/singular-3.0.0-1-src.tar.bz2, 
which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address 
(URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.


> At the moment there are only sources for Singular. Sources for surf will 
> be available at the beginning of next week I hope.

I'll try to rebuild once I can fetch it ;)


>> Directory layout needs some changes, /usr/local/Singular is the
>> base path right now, this cannot be distributed with /usr/Singular
>> instead.  Binaries should go to /usr/bin, rest to /usr/share/Singular
>> and/or /usr/lib/Singular and docs into /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.0.
> 
> 
> Is this for all Cygwin - packages required? I am asking because changing 
> the directory layout after the root of the Singular tree would require 
> setting a lot of envioronment variables. Changing the root directory is 
> possible. I have just left it on usr/local/Singular/3-0-0 because prior 
> version was using this path.

We use the standard directory layout as proposed by FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

I think setting the root to /usr should do it.


>> Info file is named .hlp, don't know if this is a problem for info.
> 
> 
> I have taken all names from Linux distribution. It works fine on 
> WinXP/WinME/Win98 and latest Cygwin. If there is a problem, renaming the 
> file should be considerable easy.

Probably it works ok.

> A further question has popped up. There is the x-icons packages and the 
> singular-helper package does quite the same (Except the dependancies and 
> the Base category). It is possible to store also such packages in the 
> official cygwin mirrors?

As long as no other files are overwritten, yes.


Gerrit
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