foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch

I have no particular preference for the Lisp used for Maxima, and CCL
appears to have many attractive features.  Your test shows that the
stack-overflow crash issue is resolved (at least for that simple test case),
and that seemed to be the main problem with CCL.

As Fateman suggests, can we build a CCL Windows installer for the current
release (in addition to the existing GCL installer) so that users can bang
on the CCL implementation for a couple of months to help find bugs or
performance problems before we take the plunge? Better that it be the same
version so as not to confuse the evaluation.

            -s

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 18:04, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2/25/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2/25/11 1:53 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> >> I don't care what GCL does or doesn't, anymore.
>
> > You keep saying this.  So make it official instead of making snarky
> > remarks about not caring about gcl.
> >
> > Announce the fact that maxima no longer supports running with GCL and be
> > done with it.  People will know what to do then.
>
> I don't have, and don't want, the authority to decide it myself.
> Remarks like the one above are an attempt to get others to
> say what they want -- either "me neither" or "Well, I still care"
> or whatever. Or they might say nothing, in which care I'll
> probably go ahead with my own plan, but at least nobody
> can claim to be surprised.
>
> FWIW
>
> Robert Dodier
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