Re: [Axiom-developer] asdf

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

C Y <address@hidden> writes:

| --- Bill Page <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
| > > Indeed, an ASDF based version of Axiom will completely enclose
| > > the whole issue into a proper lisp build framework and the
| > > whole build process can disappear.
| > 
| > I simply don't believe this statement at all.
| 
| Other issues aside Bill, asdf is in fact quite powerful.
| 
| Obviously the build process won't disappear entirely - what Tim means
| is that the dependence of Axiom's build on machinery external to the
| lisp environment will disappear.  This is probably true to a fairly
| large extent, and I think will be a Good Thing for portability,
| simplicity, etc.

Many of the problems I've seen so far with the build process are bugs
in the Makefiles.  

-- Gaby