Re: [j-devel] New maintainer structure for ABCL

[Berlin B. <ber...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Mark Evenson <ev...@pa...> wrote:
> Ville Voutilainen wrote:
>>> [...]I think someone
>>> needs to fix CLOS:  I can at least write tests?
>>
>> Any idea which parts of CLOS work in abcl and which parts don't? Or is it just a
>> performance thing?
>
> I'm a dual SBCL/ABCL user, so I can only report what works on SBCL that
> doesn't seem to work on ABCL.  For most I can (given enough time)
> generate test cases.
>
> An example could be made out of [OCML][1], an implementation of an
> "Operational Concept Modeling Language", as an ASDF installable process
> inference engine that works by modifying metaclasses of (possibly)
> persistent object graphs (don't confuse with OCAML!).
>
> [1]: http://kmi-forge.open.ac.uk/gitweb?p=ocml.git;a=summary
>
> Things die rather mysteriously in the DEFCLASS macro expansions, which
> SLIME's client implementation (swank-abcl.lisp) from [2] isn't good
> enough to take advantage of (like stack traces).  I've gotten some work
> on this committed to the SLIME CVS HEAD, so all current users of ABCL
> should be able to use SLIME HEAD without issues.  If not, I would be
> interested in test cases that fail.
>
> [2]: http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
>
>
> yers in the REPL,
>
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Me too.  I have been quietly following ABCL over the years and wishing
for activity.




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