First install: notangle is not available yet

[romildo]

I want to package the latest version (from git) of noweb for my use with gentoo linux, but the package cannot be built unless notangle is already available. The problem is that notangle is not available in a first install. It will be available only after the package has been built.

Thus the "untangled" source files need to be made available in the git repository for such first installs. Please, add them.

[nrnrnr]

I have to consider how best to handle this problem. Bootstrap files probably belong in a separate repository. To be honest, if someone needs to bootstrap noweb, I think the best plan is not to use this git repo but to use one of the source distributions. Unless you or someone else wants to volunteer to create a noweb-bootstrap repository, I will close this issue within a few days.

[romildo]

It is ok to bootstrap noweb using the released source distribution as long as it includes the generated source code and is released more frequently. The problem is that the latest release is too old and do not provide the latest features and fixes.

[nrnrnr]

Here's a script you can use to bootstrap: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/nofake

[nrnrnr]

There is a more recent script at https://github.com/ctarbide/ctweb/blob/master/tools/nofake, with plenty of improvements.

Literate source at https://github.com/ctarbide/ctweb/blob/master/tools/nofake.nw