RE: [Axiom-developer] Axiom/GCL on windows

[Bill Page]

On December 15, 2006 9:14 PM Gabriel Dos Reis
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Vanuxem Gregory wrote:
> 
> | --- /usr/local/axiom-testing/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
> | +++ axiom-windows/AxiomOnWindows/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
> | @@ -66,8 +123,8 @@
> |  ;; browser stuff:
> |  #+:UNIX (defvar |$standard| 't)
> |  #-:UNIX (defvar |$standard| 'nil)
> | -#+:UNIX (defvar |$saturn| 'nil)
> | -#-:UNIX (defvar |$saturn| 't)
> | +#+(or :UNIX :WINNT) (defvar |$saturn| 'nil)
> | +#-(or :UNIX :WINNT) (defvar |$saturn| 't)
> |
> | ? (diff between build-improvements and AxiomOnWindows branch)
> |

What is "AxiomOnWindows branch"?

> | See src/interp/i-toplev.boot.pamphlet, the function 
> | printTypeAndTime. Or if you prefer type in an Axiom
> | session:
> 
> Yes, that does the trick for me.  Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> Again, I must rant about this irritating puzzle-ridding habit
> of Axiom testing for platforms when, in fact, it is interested
> in *functionalities*.  We should not be testing for platform
> in this specific case, we should be testing for functionality.
> 

+1 Yes!

Regards,
Bill Page.