Re: [cclan-list] experimental stuff [CLISP-support, ++]

[Daniel B. <da...@te...>]

Stig E Sandoe <st...@ii...> writes:

> as has been mentioned many times, it has been an important goal to
> get CLISP working with cCLan, and this is now possible. 

This is really cool.  Not that I use clisp, but many people do and
will find it useful.  Plus the occasional "cCLan is cmucl-centric" charge 
on c.l.l will go away ;-)

It does however bring to attention the problem of specifying which
implementations a given package works with.  Some of mine have scary
cmucl/sbcl alien code in them, for example, and will probably never
work (or indeed, be much use) on clisp, openmcl, acl, or whatever.

I could do something like

#-(or sbcl cmu)
   (error "This package only works with SBCL or CMUCL")

in the defsystem file.  But I'd find that kind of tacky in that it
depends on clc not minding about package compilation errors and
installing the package anyway.  Granted that it currently does just
that, I don't think it's necessarily _right_ that it does.

So, any better ideas?


-dan

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