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

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 06/04/2007 10:42 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 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.

No doubt. But I love your plan. Since long I want to have the 
interpreter decoupled from the underlying libraries.

> 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.

Would that mean that Aldor->Lisp->executable should work?

Ralf