Raymond Toy writes:
> I sometimes think gcl is hindering development of some parts of
> maxima. Could we use ecl instead, which, I think, is much more ansi
> compliant? I think ecl runs on all the platforms we need, including
> Windows. But I have never used ecl, so I don't know what it's really
> like.
Well, ecl may be an option. Besides sbcl and clisp I also gave ecl
running on my platform (FreeBSD/AMD64), but unfortunately there is no
port of gcl.
So if you want to give ecl a try, I could certainly try to help in the
porting effort. Having maxima run on one more lisp would be a good
thing.
'Andreas