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# Welcome to Kenzo
*!!! UNDER CONSTRUCTION !!!*
According to the title of its
[handbook](http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Kenzo/Kenzo-doc.pdf),
Kenzo is a "Symbolic Software for Effective Homology Computation" and
its main audience might be students and researchers in algebraic topology.
It is also a remarkable piece of LISP code, albeit in need of a little touch-up.
This is a repackaged version of the Kenzo program by Francis Sergeraert
and Xavier Dousson. The original version of the program can be found
and collaborators. The original version of the program can be found
at http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Kenzo/ .
This version aims to update its infrastructure by providing the following:
1. Installation via the [Quicklisp](http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/) library
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[FiveAM](http://common-lisp.net/project/fiveam/)
(Based on tests scattered throughout the source code in comments.)
3. Support for [SBCL](http://www.sbcl.org/)
*!!! WARNING !!!*
This is work in progress. The entire code now compiles fine w/ SBCL, but that's
just the first step. There are plenty of examples in
[publications](http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Papers/) and scattered
throughout the source. Many work (most?), some don't. *Let's get to work! ...*