James Amundson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:49, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>
>>This documents how to use Allegro lisp; it does not document how to run
>>Maxima using Allegro lisp.
>>
>>It is the latter that the Maxima distribution has to provide.
When everything is put together correctly, the way to run
maxima using allegro may be simply
alisp -I maxima.dxl
where alisp = the actual .exe for allegro CL.
If I understand something said here recently, this can be put
under an icon.
personally, I'd prefer that an emacs-like front end
utter this command, and thus for me the startup would look like
"start up emacs" perhaps by clicking an icon
m-x run-maxima perhaps automatically by a special emacs+maxima icon.
the alisp -I maxima.dxl works for me right now, except I
haven't looked at putting in plot etc.
The allegro maxima build uses the same defsys, and (other than requiring
certain bugs to be fixed or conditionalized in the source), requires
rather little. A half page of allegro-specific code to use its "dump"
system.
But there are other issues like plot, interaction with front ends,
which no one here has looked at. On the other hand, we have looked
at a multi-threaded maxima, certainly possible in Allegro. Also
a more elaborate alternative to simple socket code, like an http
server. This latter stuff should be doable in other lisps as well.
RJF
>>
>
> Yup. The procedure for extending the Maxima build system to another lisp
> implementation has not yet been documented. I will document it as soon
> as someone (a) cares and (b) is willing to try following the
> instructions so that they can be debugged. That's why I have repeatedly
> begged people who are interested in another lisp to ask us about it if
> they are interested. The file README.lisps also asks people interested
> in other ports to contact the developers. So far, nobody has taken me up
> on it. In the meantime, there have been many other issues that are more
> pressing.
>
> Are you interested in working on Maxima for Allegro? That would be
> great.
>
> Best,
> Jim
>
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