Re: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Maxima] Re: Maxima cmucl patch

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Thanks so much for the reference!  Will try to give it a
scope.  And thanks for your notes about the emacs interface amailed
earlier -- I'll try to respond to the details soon, but I share your
interest in getting a good emacs debugging interface for gcl.

This note is prompted by the observation that you are familiar with
Debian lisp and the common-lisp controller system.  We have one
remaining gcl bug in the Debian BTS:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=130569

i.e. alone of the lisps we do not support the common-lisp-controller
mechanism yet.  Should be so straightforward, but I'm so short on
time.  Would you have interest in looking into this?

Take care,

address@hidden writes:

>       Even though I hate to see people
>       re-re-reinventing the wheel. I don't think
>       that the case with make vs. defsystem. They
>       are not comparable tools.
> 
>       --Jim
> 
> Kent Pitman does a good job of explaining the issues
> in the following article.  Even though it is written
> in the context of lisp systems, the issues aren't
> idiosyncratic to lisp.
> 
> http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Large-Systems.html
> 
> The size of the article is due to two big appendixes
> of code.  It is a quick read.
> 
> I can heartily recommend it to anybody, who hasn't
> read it yet.
> 
> BTW:  All lisp-packages on Debian and others comes
> packaged in one or both of the new systems: ASDF
> and mk:defsystem.  CLisp comes with mk:defsystem in
> the full image.
> 
> Dennis Decker Jensen
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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