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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> gcl is a disaster waiting to happen from what I've heard. The project seems |
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> stalled, and if you want a Common Lisp, your "viable" open source choices |
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> appear to be clisp and sbcl. |
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Here I disagree. gcl development is not stalled. 2.7.0 will have a lot of |
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new exciting stuff (including speed improvements). Camm Maguire is very |
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helpful and responsive. |
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I never had problems with gcl until recently. I always used it as my main |
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common lisp for maxima and other things. Recently, I uninstalled it, and |
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installed again (the same version). And after that, it is broken. It seems |
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that there is some serious flaw in the gcl Gentoo ebuild (this never |
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happens on Debian, for example; but Camm is a Debian developer :-) |
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Andrey |
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