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# Welcome to Kenzo
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According to the title of its
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[handbook](http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Kenzo/Kenzo-doc.pdf),
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Kenzo is a "Symbolic Software for Effective Homology Computation" and
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its main audience might be students and researchers in algebraic topology.
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It is also a remarkable piece of LISP code, albeit in need of a little touch-up.
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This is a repackaged version of the Kenzo program by Francis Sergeraert
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and collaborators. The original version of the program can be found
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at http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Kenzo/ .
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This version aims to update its infrastructure by providing the following:
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1. Installation via the [Quicklisp](http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/) library
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manager
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2. A simple regression test suite based on
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[FiveAM](http://common-lisp.net/project/fiveam/)
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3. Support for [SBCL](http://www.sbcl.org/)
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*!!! WARNING !!!*
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This is work in progress. The entire code now compiles fine w/ SBCL, but that's
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just the first step. There are plenty of examples in
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[publications](http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~sergerar/Papers/) and scattered
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throughout the source. Many work (most?), some don't. *Let's get to work! ...*
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To load Kenzo as provided by this repo, make sure ASDF knowns where to find
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the source, e.g. by creating a link to this directory at
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~/.local/share/common-lisp/source/
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Then in your Lisp (e.g. in ECL) type
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```lisp
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(require :asdf)
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(require :kenzo)
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```
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