Re: [Axiom-developer] merge branches/daly to trunk

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

[...]

| For Aldor that is easy, one compiles an executable and runs that. With Axiom
| that is not possible, because libaxiom cannot (at least not easily) be
| compiled into a standalone executable.

We should work toward modularizing the Axiom system.  More specifically:

  (1) we should have standalone bootsys, that can translate, compile
      Boot codes.  It should be able to create standalone executable from
      Boot+Lisp programs.

  (2) we should have a standalone interpreter that can work with any set
      of algebras

  (3) we should have a standalone compiler that can work with any set of
      algebras

  (4) we should have a standalone et of standard algebras can be be used
      with any "standard conformant" Axiom interpreter or compiler.

No doubt, that is work.

Currently, I have (1) plus a standalone depsys that can create executable
from Lisp+Boot programs, but my hope is that depsys will die soon.

-- Gaby