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Hello, |
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GCL, or GNU Common Lisp, has been masked in Gentoo for some time, |
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but it's still the fastest (and best?) Lisp to be used with Maxima, |
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the symbolic math package. |
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The reason for the mask is found in the message when attempting |
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to emerge gcl-2.6.8-pre-release: |
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# Masked for increasingly many problems. Upstream is flaky and hasn't released since 2005. |
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# Maxima is the only consumer and can be built with sbcl or clisp. |
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# Hopefully upstream will do a release that we can add to revive this package. |
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I've been compiling the patched Fedora source (gcl-2.6.8-pre-release) to use |
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with Maxima and it works very well. |
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However, this past week, new final releases of gcl-2.6.8 and gcl-2.6.9 |
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have officilly been made. Does this mean that soon GCL will be unmasked |
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in the portage tree? |
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Also, if anyone happens to know, what is the reason for releasing both |
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gcl 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 together? Should we just skip 2.6.8 entirely and |
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use 2.6.9, or is there still some virtue with 2.6.8? |
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Frank Peters |
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