On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:29:16 -0500 Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
On Nov 20, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
Is that the only difference? (Where is the difference documented apart from "for developers"?)
From INSTALL.txt:
Note that releases come in two flavors. The "developer" release, which has a "-devel" suffix in its name, contains the complete git history. It is a snapshot of the Gambit repository at a particular point in time. The "plain" release, without the "-devel" suffix in its name, does not contain the git history and is much more compact than the developer release.
To create the -devel tarball I use “make dist-devel”. The normal tarball is created with “make dist”.
As an aside, there is a link to the -devel tarball on the "main" page of http://gambitscheme.org/ , but none to the plain release. If you follow the link to the "distributions" page, that contains no reference to the 4.9 releases at all. To get at the 4.9.1 tarballs you have to go from the "distributions" link to one of the other gambit releases, go down to its parent page and navigate back up again.
So the "plain" package is quite hard to find at present.
Chris