The deadsnakes PPA has apparently not been updated for compatibility
with Ubuntu Groovy, so the build was failing. I think we only needed
deadsnakes (which provides older Python versions) for Mathics,
which (until the recent new release) had a bug that prevented using it
with Python 3.8. By upgrading Mathics, we remove the need for the old
Python version, which means we don't have to figure out how to work
around the deadsnakes compatibility problem.
The contents of ftp://ftp.snobol4.org/snobol/old/snobol4-2.1.4.tar.gz
are now a tarball containing a single file
entitled 'README.WHY'
with the following contents...
July 13th, 2020
Just curious why I'm seeing repeated downloads of
ftp://ftp.snobol4.org/snobol4/old/snobol4-2.1.4.tar.gz
(on July 11th and 12th).
2.1.4 was an intermediate release for Windows 10 support. The
currently available Windows 10 binary release is 2.1.5, available
since July 2nd 2020.
Please let me know by emailing phil(at)snobol4.org
... So rather than deal with this I decided to just grab the latest
release and stick it on Google Drive.
I've been running into trouble where something will fail inscrutably
in docker-install.bash or when pushing a large layer or something else
of that nature, and those errors really suck when it's just one big
layer. This should aid development and deployment both.
Radon Rosborough