maxima on os x



On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:35, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "Dick" == fell   writes:
> 
>     Dick> I apologize if this is an often asked question. I have
>     Dick> installed maxima on my mac running the latest os x. What
>     Dick> lisp should I install and where should I get it? I have
>     Dick> found several versions of lisp that work on the mac but I am
>     Dick> hesitant to load one of these until I make sure that it will
>     Dick> work with maxima.  Thanks, Dick Fell
> 
> I think openmcl, cmucl, sbcl, clisp and gcl should all work with
> maxima on Mac OS X.  I personally tried openmcl and cmucl and both
> worked, when I tried quite some time ago.

We haven't heard from anyone using openmcl in quite some time. I would
guess that maxima is broken with openmcl, but only in trivial ways. If
you do try openmcl, please report back. I would like to keep the port up
to date.

--Jim