Re: [Axiom-developer] rule for making NRLIBs

[root]

> > I think that we should use wrapper "everywhere" -- the semantics of
> > probe-file looks insane on Unix-like systems (including Windows and
> > Mac OSX).  ATM wrapper should use directoryp, later we can change
> > it to accomodate other Lisps.  I did not look deeply into the problem,
> > but what I wrote is just common sense: we want to push down and
> > encapsulate system specific details.
> 
> This is exactly why I think this issue need to be discussed. Tim, Gaby
> and any others can you share your point of view?

This has been the traditional approach in Axiom.
That is the source of such files as vmlisp.lisp.
While this is a good short term solution which I
have used everywhere in the past it should eventually
get written out of the source. Adding layer after layer
of 'cover' code that implements past semantics eventually
makes the system harder to maintain. I'm striving to 
lower this tower as I go along with the rewrite.

That said, it is a perfectly reasonable short-term solution.

t