On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...It does reflect somewhat poorly on maxima itself, even thought it's not
> maxima's fault. Or perhaps we can drop support for gcl and recommend
> using something else like ecl. (I'd rather not drop support for gcl,
> but we clearly need help from gcl which seems somewhat lacking now,
> unfortunately.)
>
The main blocking issue as I remember it for ECL was that (some kinds of)
infinite recursion cause segfaults. That would also "reflect poorly on
Maxima itself"....
-s