[isabelle-dev] isabelle build

[Makarius]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Makarius wrote:

> In Isabelle/doc-src/ROOT there are some examples with document_dump and 
> document_dump_mode that are leading into the direction to make typical 
> configurations for papers based on regular sessions.
>
> I have my own traditional idioms here, but did not try to express them 
> in the new way yet.  It will practially require some ./build script to 
> wrap up the whole process as used to be done by several IsaMakefile 
> command lines, but shell scripting is no longer built into the build 
> tool.

I would like to encourage early adopters to post their favourite session 
layout for individual documents (papers etc.).  So far there is a first 
version of isabelle mkroot in eeb4480b5877, but it is still a bit awkward 
-- too much influenced by the bounds of isabelle usedir.

The abstract specification for the result is like this:

   isabelle mkroot && ./build

It remains to figure out what mkroot generates in the directory, and what 
the local build script looks like (based on isabelle build + isabelle 
document etc.).


 	Makarius