>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Eder <aeder at arcor.de> writes:
Andreas> 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.
Andreas> Well, ecl may be an option. Besides sbcl and clisp I also gave ecl
Andreas> running on my platform (FreeBSD/AMD64), but unfortunately there is no
Andreas> port of gcl.
Unless ecl becomes the official version on Windows, I think we need to
keep gcl working.
Andreas> So if you want to give ecl a try, I could certainly try to help in the
Andreas> porting effort. Having maxima run on one more lisp would be a good
Andreas> thing.
I personally don't want to try ecl. Two lisps with an occasional test
on gcl is takes more than enough of my time already. :-)
You (we) will have to depend on the friendly gcl maxima testers to
keep testing with gcl.
Ray