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============
=== TODO ===
============

* Support more Lisp systems
* Better support on Windows platform (MinGW/MSYS)
* Modernize algebras
* Better documentations
* Find better documentation tools and formats that do not get in
  the way of building the system on more platforms.
* Interfaces to mainstream programming languages
* Improve Boot, Spad
* Integrate to development environments

* Revisit the underlying definition of the types DFlo in foam
  interface, and Float in OpenAxiom.

* Audit all codes that manipulate sockets.

* Automate the process of "optimized" OpenAxiom: this requires a two-pass
  build; once to gather type information, a second time to use the
  information.  

* Find a better of structuring for PLF, CCF, LDF, LISP.

* Have OpenAxiom configure pass options specified on the
  invokation line down to GCL.

* Properly document the new build in a very intelligible way

* Document src/scripts/document.in

* cleanup the Makefile pamphlets

* Improve Boot documentation

* Reduce the number of bar Lisp codes to the minimum residual.

* Fix codes in src/interp, src/hyper, and src/hyper/pages/util.ht that 
  hardcode pathnames.
  In general, the OpenAxiom system should be able to work properly with
  relative paths to that it can be "moved" around seamlessly. 

* Audit cleanup rules

* Audit file copying.

* Document the installation structure.

============
=== DONE ===
============

* Support out-of-source build.

* Support parallel build.
  Notice that GCL does not support parallel build.  So we can punt
  on build of GCL.  We should work with Camm to fix GCL build upstream.

* Convince GCL to find its internal header files. 
  -- it turns out to be a bug in OpenAxiom.

* Fix Makefile generation dependencies.
  -- This turns out to be a bug in Autoconf 2.59 whereby the value of
  -- @top_builddir@ is empty.  Work around the bug by using
  -- $(abs_top_builddir).

* Have an automated, smooth bootstrapping process for boot.

* Implement framework for recursive rules in Makefiles.

* Fix fall-outs of missed DVI files.
  This is believed to be fixed with the recursive rule support.

* Reorganize the makefile pamphlets so that OpenAxiom can build without
  LaTeX or X11.

* Support standard "clean", "mostlyclean", and "distclean" Makefile
  targets

* Add support for --with-lisp=lisp-image for building OpenAxiom with
  a specific lisp-image.

* --enable-gcl uses the GCL from OpenAxiom repository to build OpenAxiom.

* src/boot can be built with Lisp images other than GCL:
     --with-lisp=sbcl
     --with-lisp=clisp

* Build on Windows platforms, more specifically MSYS/MinGW, is
  supported.

* Components known to build with various Lisp implementations:
   + bootsys: GCL, SBCL, CLISP
   + depsys: GCL, CLISP
   + interpsys: GCL
   + AXIOMsys: GCL

* Use Libtool to build the C part of the OpenAxiom system.  In particular,
  this facilitates support for Lisps that rely on dynamic loading
  (e.g. SBCL, ECL).

* Have OpenAxiom use bootsys compile all Boot codes in src/interp. This
  requires auditing the code for uses of special functions which
  act differently in boot and shoe (like MEMBER). 

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=== New Boot vs. Old Boot compatibility notes ==
================================================

The Old Boot translator renames some LISP identifiers
(i.e. identifiers, used in Boot codes, that consist of only
capital letters), a renaming not done by the New Boot translator.
Consequently, when converting a Boot program to the New Boot
translator, special care must be given to those identifiers
so as to preserve meanings.

* As of today, the following identifiers are no longer used in
  Boot programs found in src/interp:
  
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