RE: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp

[Bill Page]

On August 12, 2006 8:56 PM Gaby wrote:
> ... 
> There are still some patches against GCL that Tim developed.
> Ideally, I think we should not be in the business of patching
> GCL. Camm has been collaborating with us very effectively; we
> should communicate those issues with him and see how they can
> be addressed in GCL upstream.
> 

I think all of the patches made by Tim are obsolete. I agree
that we should not be in the business of patching GCL. Although
GCL is currently the primary vehicle for delivering Axiom, it
is not the only Lisp that is capable of doing so. (For example
there is the open source CMUCL version of Axiom done by Jurgen
Weiss and the commercial version of Axiom used yet another lisp
and that lisp is now open source too.

In fact I am fairly sure that Camm has already addressed all of
the GCL issues that have been identified so far. None of these
patches are used in the Debian release of Axiom which is built
from an unmodified standard distribution of GCL. There is no
reason that I can think of way this should not become the standard
way of building Axiom from GCL on all platforms (including Windows).

Regards,
Bill Page.