Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: OpenAxiom-1.2.1 released

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:37 AM, root <address@hidden> wrote:

> Since boot was written in boot we had a situation where we needed a
> running Axiom in order to build Axiom. This was also true of the
> algebra in that you needed a running system to build a running system.

A data point: OpenAxiom has more codes written in Boot than any
other in the AXIOM-family.  Yet, it does not need a running
OpenAxiom system to build the entire compiler.

I suspect we had this sort of discussion before...

-- Gaby