Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com
> <mailto: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"....
Yes, that's a problem, but at least based on the bug reports, ecl would
probably work. :-)
Maybe openmcl (ccl) would be a better choice since it runs on Mac OS X,
Linux, FreeBSD, and, probably most importantly, Windows.
Ray