What I meant was, if Ubuntu doesn't run Maxima, tell people who want to
run Maxima to not run Ubuntu.
If someone fixes the Ubuntu package so that it runs Maxima, then fine.
Dropping GCL for all platforms for
this reason seems like a bad idea, unless it is clear that some other
lisp totally surpasses GCL in all respects,
which would include speed, size, reliability, versatility, support,
etc. I thought we were heading this way
with one or another of the lisps. Maybe more compliant with common lisp
standard and foreign function call stuf?
But in the meantime, GCL seems to work pretty well, no?
RJF
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM, R Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu
> <mailto:fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
> Why not drop ubuntu?...
>
>
> Maybe because it (with its derivatives) is the most popular Linux
> distribution?
>
> BTW, the stack overflow issue is as far as I can tell completely
> orthogonal to the OS type; it is (or was, if it has in fact been
> fixed) a Lisp implementation (ECL) problem.
>
> -s
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