(I'm writing a short message now, as opposed to a long one later. Later
keeps turning into never...)
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:18, Richard Fateman wrote:
> I have explored with Franz Inc the possibility of
> their providing a base of Allegro CL for Maxima
> development.
<snip>
> I don't know how people here feel about this.
> Possible reactions
>
> 1. Yes, let's do it. It makes our lives simpler.
> (We still need to understand what restrictions we
> can live with.)
>
> 2. No, only open-source GPL code allowed here.
>
> 3. It's just another Lisp, along with GCL etc to support.
> Do it if you want to.
>
> 4. Something else.
My initial reaction is 3. In fact, I was more-or-less planning on it. I
even had the ACL free edition's restriction on dumping images in the
back of my mind when I designed the binary install structure.
I actually have the free edition on my disk, but I haven't tried Maxima
with it.
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 07:53, Liam Healy wrote:
> Three years ago, I hacked up Maxima to run on ACL. It is not the
> current version (I think it was 5.4). The basics work, and I use it
> from time to time for small computations.
>
> A couple months ago I passed these changes on to James Amundson, and I
> got the impression they are in place in the current version. Does it
> still not work? What remains to be done?
I used Liam's code to help with general ANSI issues, but I didn't put in
changes en masse. The current CVS version of Maxima should be close to
working with ACL, but I expect there would still be some issues.
--Jim