How to decide what to kill / packages



>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:

    James> On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 10:53, Richard Fateman wrote:
    >> are you talking about the common lisp package system
    >> or a new user-accessible package system for maxima?

    James> Good question. I am talking about using the common lisp package system
    James> internally in Maxima. I think that is also what Ray was talking about. I
    James> am not sure about Martin.

Yes, I was talking about the CL package system.  A package system for
maxima will have to wait.

The CL package system can also solve some issues we have today where
the same functions are defined differently in different source files.
These can be placed into separate packages.  The hard part is now
knowing which version OTHER files really wanted. :-(

Ray