"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I very strongly disagree. I do not think the AXIOM project should be > in the business of building literate programming tools. And I am > rather surprised that Stephen should think so since he is also against > the idea of building and maintaining intermediate tools like BOOT that > are much more intimately related to AXIOM than literate programming > tools.
Ok, no problem. Besides, Axiom is not in the business of doing anything. It is the sum total of the efforts and skill of the individual contributors. If I have a problem which I need a tool to solve, and if no one else is already pursuing a solution, Ill create it myself. It just so happens that Boot doesn't solve anything for me. But thats another, completely unrelated, issue. > I think one of the great advantages of open source is the ability to > build freely on the work of other open source projects. Tim had the > right idea (but the wrong tool) when he decided to use noweb for > literate programming in Axiom. Re-writing such things in Lisp is just > a diversion away from the real point of the Axiom project (at least > what the Axiom project should be). No one, to my knowledge, is rewriting noweb or some equivalent in Lisp. > I cannot imagine that spending time extending asdf to understand > pamphlet format will be anything but a similar diversion. The result > of all this effort is just to build a bigger ghetto in which Axiom > will eventually die... :-( Not sure what to say about that. There are technical reasons why asdf is a reasonable direction to pursue. I have no idea what you mean by `ghetto'. Sincerely, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
