Announcing E 0.7.4
Mark S. Miller
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:38:05 -0800
At 12:42 AM 11/30/98 , Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>... The whole unpacked distribution
>is nearly 30 megabytes for me, which is uncomfortably large.
>(The Python distribution is about 6.5 megabytes including the
>library and some examples and tools; the jsrc/ directory of
>the E distribution is similar in size.)
[+] I need to revisit the whole "build a distribution" thing very soon.
Getting 0.7.4 to build on my laptop was my first real foray into these
>After unpacking, i was surprised to find no compiled bytecode
>anywhere. So i can't try it out with kaffe until i compile it.
[?] Would you have expected these in a "source" distribution?
They are in the binary distribution.
>but guavac seems to be unhappy unless you compile dependents
>first, and there is a circular dependency between
[-] I believe you mean org.erights.e.meta.java.util.VectorSugar
[+] Sigh, thanks for identifying this.
I'll try to untangle this soon. I assume that cyclic dependencies *within*
a package are fine?
>It's not bad, but i wonder what's up with Frame having this
>recurring size inconsistency. The first occurrences of things
>seem to often be larger than later occurrences, whereas the
>monospaced example text seems to come in random sizes.
Please point me at some examples. Thanks.
>Unfortunately an example got mangled on:
>Augh. How hard can it possibly be to convert a simple
>block-structured document from one form to another? Geez.
I think Frame believes that it can insert newlines when it wishes to break
up html output, and does after a character style change. Of course, this
doesn't work in <pre>formatted text.</pre>
>At least it's encouraging to see that Frame was able to
>generate decent images from your figures.
But in the "Quick Links" figure in
http://www.erights.org/doc/elang/web/control.1.html Frame didn't generate a
working image map for the embedded links, even though I think I followed
the directions correctly.