Re: [Axiom-developer] SBCL and Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

C Y <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| Gaby has proceeded much deeper into the BOOT world than I was ever
| able to and the presence of old and new BOOT (shoe?) adds a rather
| unexpected twist.  The prospect of fixing BOTH variations to output
| correct code is not a particularly enjoyable one.

It is wrong to have both variations around.  Old Boot should go away.
That is non negotiable.

|  My hope was that
| the new BOOT (shoe) was the stand alone code in the boot directory,
| which I suspect would be somewhat simpler to get working as the first
| step in getting sbcl to support the complete build chain as it exists
| today in GCL.

That is my understanding too.

| Gaby, did SHOE ever reach a point where it could convert all of the
| Axiom BOOT code to lisp?

We are almost there.  I've found that the new Boot is much simpler,
and more comfortable to work with.  

-- Gaby