Re: ASDF-INSTALL for LispWorks, AllegroCL, CLISP

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:56:58 +0100, james anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> i am looking at how to get this to work in mcl.
>
> it is not obvious.
>
> the environment issue is resolved. as are implementations for popen,
> system-command, and http access.

Is GnuPG available for OS 9 or are you porting for OS X?

> the problem is that there are at least a few places where the
> implementation presumes that (namestring (truename <some pathname>))
> will produce a string which conforms to posix syntax.

Yes. I also had pathname-related problems when trying to port for
Windows. I had to resorted to an ugly workaround using cygpath.

If it's about OS X, is MCL's behaviour w.r.t. pathnames different from
OpenMCL? I thought Marco Baringer's patch made ASDF-INSTALL work with
Open MCL. (I have no Mac to test with except for my wife's old Pismo
which I don't have access to right now.)

> does it appear appropriate to replace this combination with a
> single, implementation specific, function which does the right
> thing. would that tactic be adequate for asdf in general?

I think this would be fine if we could add another platform that way.

Does ASDF itself work with MCL?

Edi.


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