RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [508]branches/wh-sandbox

[Bill Page]

On April 27, 2007 6:32 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> ... 
> svn diff between wh-sandbox and build-improvements is probably
> quite large, mostly due to file removals.  If we do not take
> into account files which are entirely (or almost entirely)
> removed and algebra files (where wh-sandbox removed bootstrap
> Lisp) we get a diff of 780 kb (20456 lines).  The bulk of this
> is in interp directory (about 11000 lines).  The second large
> piece is graph subdirectory (about 3000 lines).  The next is
> new asq program.  Other changes are relatively small.
>

Although everything else is very nice, I think the single
must significant achievement is wh-sandbox is the new algebra
bootstrap method and the removal of the Lisp from the algebra
files. In my opinion this is of great importance to the future
of Axiom.

When time permits, I would like to revisit the issue of cyclic
dependencies in the algebra files and look for evidence that
this new procedure solves the "fixed point" problem that was
never properly addressed in the old method:

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/17AlgebraBOOTSTRAPFixedPoint

> ... 
> Both graph and asq should be independent of other changes.
> 
> Well, enough for today: I will summarize other changes later.
> 

What about the changes to HyperDoc?

Regards,
Bill Page.