Re: [Maxima-discuss] obsolete and other Lisp implementations, was: Trying to accommodate GCL is keeping us from making progress

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:35 AM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

>
>
> > And maybe for GCL the current code (code for ./configure-options, ...)
> > for GCL should be kept, but we might call it a 'not recommended (or not
> > very well tested) compiler'? Or somethin similar?
>
> I'm against it. "Not very supported" will mean in practice that we
> can't clean up GCL-related cruft.
>

I agree.  If we're not going to support gcl fully, then we should just
remove everything.  If gcl improves and we support gcl again, we wouldn't
want the old gcl stuff around; presumably gcl would be closer to ansi and
wouldn't need those things anymore.

>
> FWIW
>
> Robert
>
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Ray