I have just learned
that there will be a release of Allegro Common Lisp 6.1beta
on OS-X from Franz Inc very shortly.
Using it would put the burden of support of the Lisp on a commercial
outfit instead of volunteers. It would not, however, be free.
There is some conditionalization for Allegro in the Maxima code,
but I have not tried to recompile it in its entirely in Allegro
for some time.
There are undoubtedly points of comparison among GCL, CLISP
and Allegro other than price.
RJF
"George N. White III" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes wrote:
>
> > Following the messages that William and George exchanged, I could edit
> > "suprv1.lisp" and reach the final of the Maxima compilation without
> > warnings.
>
> You should be past the hard part now.
>
> > Now I want to test it and finalize. If you could please tell me what to
> > do I'd really appreciate.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lizardo.
>
> After commenting out the line in doc/tests.lisp starting with "(si: ..."
> that caused an error, run the commands from the "test-clisp" target
> in src/makefile:
>
> $ cd ../doc
> $ clisp -core ../src/maxima.core -load ../src/maxima-clisp.mem tests.lisp
>
> I'm still thinking about installing maxima and I have some questions
> about recovering from errors, but certainly I can do the things I
> need with very little additional work.
>
> --
> George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography
>
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