"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

| Let's us Tim's suggested terminology. "Shoe" is the newer version
| of Boot in the boot directory, while "Boot" is the older version
| of Boot in the interp directory.
| 
| My suggestion was to eliminate the source in boot directory
| (thus remove Shoe) and use the same method as in the CMUCL build
| starting from Boot in the interp directory. Thanks to Tim's analysis
| we now know that this would amount to removing the incomplete attempt
| to move to a newer version of the BOOT language implied in Shoe.
| 
| I would still argue that this is a good idea.

I'm very skeptical that removing "shoe" is a good idea.  I wouold
think it sends us back to less high-level code.

I would prefer to eliminate "old" boot; but that is not something I
have a plan for in the immediate future.

-- Gaby


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