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Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot |
Date: |
02 Oct 2006 18:28:51 +0200 |
root <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
| the new ASDF facility will make makefiles into one-liners.
this makefile stuff does not require writing the whole interpreter in
Lisp.
| the new UFFI facility will make external functions portable.
Boot being a syntactic sugar over Lisp, this UFFI stuff clearly cannot
be an argument againt Boot.
| the McCLIM facility will make embedded graphics possible and portable.
Ditto.
| CLOS will make the interpreter much more general and easier to change.
Ditto.
| CLSQL will allow the use of a real database backend.
Ditto.
| SLIME will make emacs know all about axiom.
This has nothing to do with Boot.
It looks to me that none of the reasons you advance speaks for
removing Boot.
[...]
| i failed to see the benefit of autoconf/automake.
| you do. so you're rewriting it. because you're willing to invest
| time and effort in writing and fully documenting a new makefile
| structure you'll clearly 'win' the makefile 'debate'.
I'm not rewriting just because I want to rewrite.
-- Gaby
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- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/01
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- RE: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Weiss, Juergen, 2006/10/02
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Bill Page, 2006/10/02
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, root, 2006/10/02
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/02
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, root, 2006/10/02
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- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, root, 2006/10/02
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- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/02
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Page, Bill, 2006/10/02
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Boot, Weiss, Juergen, 2006/10/02
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot, CY, 2006/10/02
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