Delivering Lisp applications [was: Re: [email protected]]

Paolo Amoroso writes:
 > 
 > I would like to start a discussion about all issues related to Lisp
 > application delivery. 

Good choice.  I currently do not seem able to find a solution to the
following problem (using CMUCL) (even if I deliver source code):

  * The install script could create compiled code, but it is too slow
    to load, 

  * That problem will go away if I generate a core file, but I can't
    because the format of the core file sometimes changes with new
    versions of CMUCL, so that the software breaks when the user
    installs a new version of CMUCL, 

  * I could fix that problem by delivering the binary for CMUCL with
    my software, but then I have to deliver different versions for
    different operating systems. 

 > - GUIs (when is a GUI based on CLIM acceptable/adequate

Always? :-)

-- 
Robert Strandh

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