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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:33:52AM -0700, 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 |
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>projects have some GCL dependencies. The Axiom project (and its |
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>forks) seem to be moving to Clisp, but their base build is still |
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>GCL-based. |
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the Axiom project, well knowing GCL's problems, maintains its own GCL |
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fork which is included in the tarballs it provides. I don't know about |
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the other Axiom forks, since neither OpenAxiom nor FreeCAS are in |
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portage |
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that leaves maxima: infact the only reason why maxima still hangs to GCL |
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is because they have no alternative to GCL on Windows, but that's not a |
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problem for us |
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Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix |
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. |