On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:21, Raymond Toy wrote:
> In the meantime, I was thinking about just making a local
> > copy of the minimal set of necessary cmucl files in the maxima tree. I
> > haven't tried it yet. Does that sound like a reasonable idea?
> >
>
> Since we already create a maxima.core, all you need is the lisp runtime
> binary, which is pretty small. Easy. :-)
Good. I was hoping it would be that simple. I think the maxima-cmucl
binary distribution will be more attractive if it doesn't depend on an
external cmucl rpm.
> This would be pretty nice. I update my cmucl quite often and that break
> maxima since I don't update that as often.
Yes. Only recently have I appreciated how inconvenient it is to have
your installed maxima distribution depend on your installed lisp
distribution.
--Jim