[isabelle-dev] Future and maintainance of ~isabelle/contrib_devel at TUM NFS

[Florian Haftmann]

>> * Will the idea of platform-universal components revived? If yes, the
>> platform-sensitive components files can be discontinued. I personally
>> like the idea, though?
>
> The problem is that modern operating systems suffer from a
> multi-personality problem. There is not "the" platform that you are
> running on, but every framework might have its own platform: ML, JVM,
> the settings environment (e.g. native windows vs. cygwin), certain tools.
> So our classic universal component idea was already right, because it is
> then up to the component settings to work out the details of the platform.

OK, once the universal Java is there, this disjunctive switch can be 
discontinued.  Fine.

>> * Cleanup and maintainance of nfsbroy:/home/isabelle/contrib
>
> We now have several component directories, which is the real one?
>
> /home/isabelle/contrib #haftmann
> /home/isabelle/contrib_devel #haftmann
> /home/isabelle/public_components #krauss
> /home/isabelle/website-Isabelle2012/dist/contrib #wenzelm (official
> release)

»/home/isabelle/contrib« is supposed to be »the« place finally, which is 
very likely to be a superset of 
»/home/isabelle/website-IsabelleYYYY/dist/contrib«.

»/home/isabelle/contrib_devel« will stay until mira and isatest are 
migrated to use Admin/components.

Not sure what the status of »/home/isabelle/public_components« is.

	Florian

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