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

Michael Tautschnig wrote:

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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