From: Julian S. <der...@we...> - 2008-10-19 23:38:48
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"Drew Crampsie" <dr...@te...> writes: > I support a lot of new lispers, and one of the biggest issues i have > is people using the packages from their distribution and complaining > they can't make things (slime etc) work. Then the packages need fixing. It hurts the adoption of Common Lisp software a lot, if you cannot use your normal installation tools. I personally have most of my Common Lisp software installed manually, but I wouldn't expect someone who wants to try out stumpwm or maxima (or whatever) to manually install the dependencies. Just as I have no desire to build ghc in my $HOME to run darcs... >> The first thing I tell them is to purge all distro related lisp and > start again. We should not endorse a method of installation that is > broken by design (debian and gentoo with clc), broken due to age > (centos) or just plain broken. What is the problem with CLC? I run Gentoo and although CLC is installed, it doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp) |