On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> Recently, Waldek removed BOOT in favour of SHOE. Then he switched to compile
> the .boot files with bootsys.
Some data points: OpenAxiom had removed depsys for years and exclusively used
what is being called SHOE (bootsys in OpenAxiom) to
Thank you, Tim,
it's always good to learn about the historic aspects.
I do not know what your particular problem is but I thought I'd give you
some history about the different images and why they exist.
Recently, Waldek removed BOOT in favour of SHOE. Then he switched to
compile the .boot fi
Ralf,
I created Bootsys to be a stand-alone boot-to-lisp conversion program.
We needed this because people were writing portions of the system in BOOT
that needed to be in Common Lisp. The Bootsys image did the translations
before the whole system existed. (Axiom no longer has any BOOT code so
Boo
