I think all we need is that the translator be written in lisp. If it is loaded,
it should be possible to call it from lisp directly. This has been a issue for
me with writing code in maxima.
James Amundson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 21:57, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
>
> > So the questions are:
> > - is this structure reasonable
>
> It looks reasonable to me, but I haven't looked closely at any of the
> ode code.
>
> > - should the compiled lisp code go into
> > - src, or
> > - share/diffequations
>
> I think we should have kept ode2.mac and ode2.lisp together in the src
> directory. It's my mistake. Are there other Lisp files in the src
> directory that are derived from mac files in the share directory?
>
> I'm not quite sure how best to maintain the .mac->.lisp transition. The
> obvious thing would be to just keep the .mac files, but that would mean
> that maxima would be required to build maxima. Clearly, we need to keep
> the .lisp files. I'll think about the build system implications some
> more.
>
> > - if I polish the code and add the test cases will it be considered for maxima
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> --Jim
>
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