Gaby, On November 26, 2006 6:44 PM you wrote:
> > Don't be sorry. Apparently, I made the incorrect assumption > that Bill was more knowledgeable with the system than he thinks > he is. That exceedingly annoyed him. Please ignore my message. > I think you misunderstand. Both your message and Gregory's message were very useful and should not be ignored. What annoyed me was how poorly written they were as documentation for how to use boot. It would have been better to simply point out that what I wrote as two commands to compile Boot source code to Lisp code and then to compile and load the Lisp code, can actually be written as one simple command: )lisp (boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot") The example of )lisp (boottran::boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot") in your original question, apparently concerning bootsys, was out of context or perhaps you were not aware that 'boottran' is not the package name used in AXIOMsys. In AXIOMsys the name of this function is 'boot::boot'. 'boot' is the default package, so we can call the function by just the name 'boot'. The state of the documentation about Boot and how to use it is so poor that I think we need to do everything we can to improve it. Writing clear emails containing as much information as possible is one way to help do this. Eventually the content might be collected in a more usable format on the web or in a Boot Users Guide. My level of frustration was heightened by Martin Rubey's recent request for a "recipe" for how to debug code written in Boot and which started this thread, since we still have no specific documentation to which I could point even though this is quite fundamental to Axiom debugging and development. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer