Re: Windows Installer for CLISP

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

On Nov 9, 2007 8:03 AM, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril
<Joe...@t-...> wrote:
> Elliot Slaughter wrote:
> > Now that I have a working
> >version, should I convert the [Installer] script to Lisp?
> Please go ahead.
> I think it's reasonable to expect that somebody writing "make installer"
> has a working clisp (or that "make" will build one). That clisp should
> have the I18N and CHARSET packages, to help convert the UTF-8 COPYRIGHT
> to ISO-8859-1 (or CP1252?). Maybe also the regex or pcre modules.

My script uses the regex module so anyone who tries to build the
installer will need regex. Also, I don't think I have any problems
with unicode now since I convert the file to rtf format anyways.

> I.e. a developer creating a windows distribution of clisp supposedly has
> a working clisp, ready to help in generating files, but not necessarily
> Ruby, or Python, or Arc, or J.

I didn't realize that Arc was available at all. I know that there are
applications using it but I as far as I know it is still closed
source. Or at least that is what it says on Paul Graham's web page.


-- 
Elliott Slaughter

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