libera/#sicl - IRC Chatlog

12:12:46 beach On my (very slow) computer, the 4 phases now take around 45 seconds which is quite good.

14:17:43 iska wow, really cool

14:18:34 iska so, just e5 and e6 left? time flies

14:19:52 beach Well, we might not need any more environments. I can build the cyclic structure in E4. But there might be more than 2 phases left. The division into phases is a bit arbitrary after phase 4.

14:20:31 yitzi phase 6 was the printing systems, correct?

14:21:09 iska I only know old boot having 6 phases

14:23:33 beach Oh, but the old boot was never completed.

14:24:22 beach yitzi: I forget. Lots of stuff needs to be loaded after the cyclic graph is created, the printer, the reader, the streams, the compiler, the package system, ...

14:26:18 beach iska: I ran into some fundamental issues with the package system. I had assumed that host packages could be used during bootstrapping, and I discovered too late that some packages need to be defined differently in the host and in the target, in particular CLOSER-MOP.

14:27:29 beach In the new bootstrapping procedure, I still use host symbols, but I use Parcl extrinsically, so the target symbols are host uninterned symbols, and the target package a symbol belongs to is defined by Parcl.

14:45:18 yitzi beach: yeah there is a lot in phase 6 previously

14:45:33 beach Right.

17:09:54 edgar-rft_ ** NICK edgar-rft

17:25:27 selwon does @ indicate host or guest packages in the source code?

18:05:31 beach It was badly chosen, but it indicates target package managed by Parcl.

18:06:00 beach badly chosen because now I can't say `(setf ,@...).

18:06:56 beach ... so the symbol indicated will be a host uninterned symbol, but Parcl will assign an extrinsic target package to it.

18:07:11 beach I'm off for tonight. I'll be back tomorrow.