James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 05:11, Andreas Eder wrote:
>> Hi,
>> is there still a lisp that we use for maxima, that cannot cope with
>> the newer (?) situation names in eval-when?
>
> The question is whether the ANSI build of GCL 2.6.2 can cope with the
> modern version of eval-when. I don't know the answer off the top of my
> head.
>
> Unfortunately, in order to deal with the numerous warnings, you will
> have to test things with GCL. Most of the non-standard forms are there
> to support GCL. We only need to worry about 2.6.2 ANSI. (GCL 2.6.2 is
> not quite released yet, but the current cvs 2.6.1 should be a very good
> approximation of what 2.6.2 will be.)
Actually, CVS ANSI GCL 2.7.0 seems to be the current version.
I should add that if the great clean-up starts right now (which is
fine with me) I'll apply my recently here announced no-legacy-packages
patch before any other sweeping changes are likely to cause merge
conflicts.
Wolfgang