On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:30, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> This said, I am not very happy with including server.lisp in the
> standard image since, well, it makes the build unnecessarily fragile
> and only xmaxima users need it.
We frequently get questions about talking to Maxima from other programs.
To that end, it seemed like a good idea to take the only working version
of a server we have and make it more explicitly available. After all,
it's really a tiny extension to the maxima image.
Are the changes you made for SBCL really fragile? I don't think there
should be additional fragility for other lisps. Couldn't we defer
loading in the sockets code until it's needed if there are potential
problems at build time?
--Jim