Re: CLX and common-lisp.net

C Y <[email protected]> writes:

> I was wondering if it might make sense to attempt setting up a
> common-lisp.net project for CLX.  The current telent-clx as linked by
> cliki seems to be somewhat sbcl specific, and I was wondering if
> perhaps a project which could provide a "homepage" and development
> framework for CLX over and above the mailing list might help spread the
> "modern" CLX features in telent's version to cmucl, gcl, and the other
> major free lisps.  The list has been rather quiet, so perhaps CLX has
> reached kind of a "holding" point, but I thought perhaps making
> telent-clx the standard across the major free lisp implementations
> would be a benefit to them all.  Does this sound like it might be a
> good/useful idea?

I don't actually see any point for a common-lisp.net project for CLX.
There is no missing infrastructure that is worth speaking of;
telent-clx is already portable across sbcl, openmcl, and ecl; and the
maintainers of other lisp implementations are aware of the existence
of the telent-clx repository: if they do not choose to use it as their
implementation, that is their privilege.

What actual advantages do you think a different hosting would provide?
(And would the work spent in any transition be better spent in adding
functionality, either cross-implementation or by patching in support
for other lisps?)

Cheers,

Christophe

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