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Andrey G. Grozin wrote: |
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> Hello *, |
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> As you may have noticed, I committed maxima-5.14.0 to the science |
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> overlay. The 5.13.0 ebuild in the main tree is not good, from my point |
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> of view, because it does not allow one to build maxima with several |
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> lisps, and I definitely want this (to compare running times and, |
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> sometimes, behaviour too). The new ebuild is much cleaner and more |
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> systematic in the sense that it is trivial to add (or remove) any lisp |
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> to the set of supported lisps. |
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Thanks!! |
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> Speaking of lisps, the current Gentoo gcl is broken (this fact is not |
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> related to maxima). I am currently in contact with the authors, and hope |
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> the authors, and hope to understand what goes wrong when it is built in |
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> Gentoo - in Debian, for example, it works fine. |
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gcl is a disaster waiting to happen from what I've heard. The project |
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seems stalled, and if you want a Common Lisp, your "viable" open source |
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choices appear to be clisp and sbcl. |
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Sounds good ... I'll check all this out (with sbcl) :) |
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