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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> Is GCL (upstream) really in trouble? I know SBCL is the most actively |
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> maintained open source Common Lisp these days, but quite a few projects |
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> have some GCL dependencies. The Axiom project (and its forks) seem to be |
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> moving to Clisp, but their base build is still GCL-based. |
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No development seems to be going on and no release has been made for quite |
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some time. There are still a few mails now and then on the mailing list |
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though. We're currently depending on an 70 MB patch that we borrow from |
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debian, whose gcl maintainer also seems to be the only person to still answer |
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mails on the list. I've asked on the list whether my perception was wrong and |
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it went unanswered. I'm not happy about dropping it, but a few more bugs is |
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all it takes right now. Maxima is the only thing depending on it and it builds |
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fine with SBCL and I think OpenMCL. |
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Axiom seems to include its own copy of gcl, (the ebuild doesn't DEPEND on gcl). |
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Marijn |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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