Re: [Axiom-developer] Turtles all the way down.

2006-11-02 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | Part of the difficulty in our discussions is that we are often | arguing from different starting points. I tend to start from | the philosophy and work "top down" and insist that the ideas | should shape the tools, Some others tend to start with the tool

Re: [Axiom-developer] Turtles all the way down.

2006-11-02 Thread root
> Axiom's a pretty complex system, and it seems to have picked up a bunch > of other projects like clef, noweb, and gcl, and like all good lisp > systems, even recursive project dependencies like gcl has it's own bfd, > and gmp. > > There is still a set of external dependencies that have to be sa

Re: [Axiom-developer] Turtles all the way down.

2006-11-02 Thread Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga wrote: > Axiom's a pretty complex system, and it seems to have picked up a bunch > of other projects like clef, noweb, and gcl, ... > What are people thinking about the builds of axiom? I'm sorry, I just found the September 2006 archive of the axiom-developer list where the

Re: [Axiom-developer] Turtles all the way down.

2006-11-02 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Axiom's a pretty complex system, and it seems to have picked up a bunch | of other projects like clef, noweb, and gcl, and like all good lisp | systems, even recursive project dependencies like gcl has it's own bfd, | and gmp. | | There is sti

[Axiom-developer] Turtles all the way down.

2006-11-02 Thread Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Axiom's a pretty complex system, and it seems to have picked up a bunch of other projects like clef, noweb, and gcl, and like all good lisp systems, even recursive project dependencies like gcl has it's own bfd, and gmp. There is still a set of external dependencies that have to be satisfied, lik