Quoting Jan Wielemaker (2020-04-30 14:40:58) > In theory we could have a package that merely contains /usr/bin/swipl > and /usr/lib/libswipl.so.8.2.0. That is enough to run saved states > (provided they have been built such that no dependencies need to be > loaded at runtime) and is indeed a lot smaller than swi-prolog-nox. > Possibly bundle these two as swi-prolog-runtime and make > swi-prolog-nox depend on it? > > A small problem is that running `swipl` will result in a big ugly > error message that it cannot find its startup resources. One could add > boot.prc to the runtime package which would allow running Prolog (but > without any library). > > I'm pretty neutral in this. Eye is for the time being the only use > case, but who knows there will be more :)
Sounds elegant if that's possible. I will leave it to Lev to decide how fine- or coarse-grained to do the packaging of swi-prolog for Debian, as it will obviously affect the maintenance burden going forward as well, which will be mainly on him. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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