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Axisp is an experimental branch of Axiom. The focus of development is
to rewrite the original Boot implementation into Common Lisp, and to
improve and document the compiler and interpreter in the process.
Stephen Wilson is the principle maintainer.
There are two macroscopic stages involved:
- Semantic translation: Converting from Boot to Lisp is not hard.
The intention is that `connected components' of the system will be
converted into Lisp and documented.
- Design translation: Converting from Boot to Lisp is not pretty.
Once a `connected component' has been resolved, translated, and
documented, options for redesign will be considered.
AXISP IS AN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH. Some sub-branches of Axisp are
intended to be stable, others, er, not so much. See the Project
Overview below.
Getting the Axisp Branch
Axisp is available through a public Git repository on
axiom-developer.org. If you have an account on axiom-developer,
simply invoke::
git-clone ssh://<your-login>@axiom-developer.org/~swilson/axisp
Alternatively, the user `git' can be used as a guest login with
password `linus'.
The above will give you a copy of the Axisp source tree rooted under
the directory `my-axisp'.
Building Axisp
Assuming the source tree is under $AXISP, do::
\$ cd \$AXISP
\$ export \$AXIOM=`pwd`/mnt/linux
\$ export \$PATH=\$PATH:\$AXIOM/bin
\$ make
Repo Overview
After doing a git-clone, your repository should have the following
remote branches:
- origin/axisp :
Staging ground for highly experimental code eventually looking
for promotion into master. Here, all bets are off.
- origin/master :
This is the stable axisp branch.
- origin/axisp-silver-test :
Staging ground for code looking for public review and promotion
into axisp-silver-release.
- origin/axisp-silver-release :
Stable, tested code with changes intended to be pulled by Tim
upstream into Silver. This branch should almost always be a
pristine image of Silver.
Roughly speaking, code filters down through the above chain of
branches. Certain changes (for example fixing Boot bugs or
documenting Boot code which resulted as a byproduct of the Lisp
rewrite), are redundant to the master and axisp branches. These types
of changes go directly into axisp-silver-test or, if the change is
trivial, into axisp-silver-release.
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