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

Nikodemus Siivola writes:
 > How about an install script that generates the core file, and makes an
 > additional hard link to the runtime (or just copies it), so that it
 > remains there for application use even if a new version is installed?

Not a bad idea.  Thanks!

 > For extra points, at startup the application could compare the
 > timestamps on the "normal" runtime and it's dedicated version: if the
 > runtime has been updated the application might offer to recompile itself
 > for the new runtime -- provided that the sources are still to be found,
 > of course.

I considered something like this.  It is a bit complicated, though
(the user need write access to the install directories, etc).  I
prefer your first solution. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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