[Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

address@hidden writes:

> > > With respect to the windowing scheme we are confronted with a large
> > > variety of front-end mechanisms. In any of the proposed mechanisms
> > > we need a working example of, for instance, the first page of the
> > > hyperdoc browser. That will ground the proposals in reality. 
> > 
> > Tim, by working you mean something that communitcates with Axiom?
> 
> Nope. Just something that communicates with lisp as a back end and
> some drawing front end. 
>  
> > > I've looked at McClim which is a path I'd dearly love to take but so
> > > far I've not gotten it to work. If someone could reproduce the first
> > > page of the browser (a few buttons, an image) in McClim that might be
> > > enough to get me over the hurdle. A pure lisp solution is preferred.
> > 
> > Well, since I'm the McCLIM advocate I'll see what I can come up with.
> > (Gulp.) You might ask the McCLIM developer list about specific
> > problems/issues - they tend to be very helpful.
> 

If anyone pursues this, please let me know of any issues on GCL and
I'll make them go away :-).  clx, on which mcclim rests, worked on gcl
out of the box last time I checked, but no one is using it at
present. 

Take care,

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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