Re: [Axiom-developer] merge branches/daly to trunk

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

| On 06/04/2007 10:42 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > 
| > [...]
| > 
| > | For Aldor that is easy, one compiles an executable and runs that. With
| > | Axiom
| > | that is not possible, because libaxiom cannot (at least not easily) be
| > | compiled into a standalone executable.
| > 
| > We should work toward modularizing the Axiom system.  More specifically:
| > 
| >   (1) we should have standalone bootsys, that can translate, compile
| >       Boot codes.  It should be able to create standalone executable from
| >       Boot+Lisp programs.
| > 
| >   (2) we should have a standalone interpreter that can work with any set
| >       of algebras
| > 
| >   (3) we should have a standalone compiler that can work with any set of
| >       algebras
| > 
| >   (4) we should have a standalone et of standard algebras can be be used
| >       with any "standard conformant" Axiom interpreter or compiler.
| > 
| > No doubt, that is work.
| 
| No doubt. But I love your plan. Since long I want to have the interpreter
| decoupled from the underlying libraries.

Looks, we have a common goal :-)

| > Currently, I have (1) plus a standalone depsys that can create executable
| > from Lisp+Boot programs, but my hope is that depsys will die soon.
| 
| Would that mean that Aldor->Lisp->executable should work?

Could you elaborate on what you mean by that phase?

-- Gaby