root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
