James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
> 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.
>
> 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.
I'm not interested in Allegro; I'm just interested in using Maxima to
optimize some functions I need for my spacecraft simulator. Using
maxima with GCL appears to be the easiest way for me to get there.
Just to make sure I'm being clear on the documentation I was talking
about; I was trying to say that it needs to be clear to the Maxima
user how to run Maxima using whatever lisp they want. On Windows,
putting a batch file in maxima/bin that runs maxima with each
supported lisp provides that documentation. Given that, I can figure
out how to run Maxima from Emacs, or an icon, or whatever. I don't
think the Maxima project should try to support _all_ of the possible
front ends for Maxima.
Of course, the build documentation is also important.
Thanks for all your work.
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-- Stephe