> I completely agree with your points. This is why I am a Gentoo Linux
> developer.
>
> Gentoo has sbcl (as well as cmucl, ccl, ecl, clisp). The approach
> taken by the sbcl ebuild is:
>
That's impressive; if I have more time, then I'll try Gentoo.
> 1. Download the appropriate sbcl binary;
> 2. Compile the sbcl source with it;
> 3. Throw away the downloaded binary, and use the locally compiled one.
>
> I don't think this disqualifies sbcl. I don't use binaries which I
> have not compiled locally, on my computer. And sbcl (and hence
> sbcl-maxima) don't violate this principle.
>
There's only the problem that it's harder to automatise.
Anyway, in this case we got it working with CLisp.
Oliver
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Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Department of Computer Science
College of Science, Swansea University
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