R Fateman wrote:
> 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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I don't have much experience with this, but
I think that it is nice that people build packages, e.g., .deb packages
which make it easy to install and uninstall maxima.
However, I think that it is unnecessary. When I started using Mac OS
some years ago there were no packages for that OS. I found a lisp which
installed (I think it was sbcl) and then I simply compiled maxima from
the sources.
That kept me up to date (usually the packages are one or two releases
behind) and satisfied my needs.
To me learning to use maxima is much harder than learning to install
from sources anyway. It still seems to me that most users of Ubuntu are
savvy enough to compile from sources, so what is the big deal?
-sen