Re: Simple Instructions/packages for Installing SBCL/Emacs/Slime ???

Yep.

I confirm that emacs can be easily installed with Homebrew and slime with
melpa.  You can also easily install emacs on Windows native, and then melpa
will work as well.

As per CL…. Quiclklisp needs an update. :)

Cheers

Marco Antoniotti
https://dcb.disco.unimib.it


On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 20:45, Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just the SBCL part. Emacs can also probably be installed using
> homebrew, and then slime using melpa from within emacs, but I haven't
> personally tried doing that.
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM Scott E. Fahlman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Stas,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response.  Does this "brew" command also set up the
> SBCL with compatible versions of Emacs and slime?  Or just the SBCL itself?
> >
> > -- Scott
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> For macOS my recommendation is just to do "brew install sbcl", and for
> >> windows, just get the .msi installer.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM Scott E. Fahlman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello to the SBCL maintainers and community!
> >> >
> >> > Hello SBCL Helpers,
> >> >
> >> > First I would like to thank all of you who have kept SBCL alive and
> up to date in recent years, and who have ported it to new machine
> architectures and OS releases.
> >> >
> >> > I'm a Professor Emeritus of CS at Carnegie Mellon University.  That
> means that I'm formally retired, but still working on AI research -- mostly
> focused on symbolic AI, as opposed to the currently-popular wave of
> statistical/numerical Deep Learning and Large Language Models.
> >> >
> >> > I was one of the core designers of the Common Lisp language back in
> the 1980s (one of the "Gang of Five").  My research group at Carnegie
> Mellon produced the CMU Common Lisp implementation from which the
> open-source CMUCL and SBCL implementations are descended.  From about 1990
> on, I've been mostly a user of Common Lisp, and not involved in the ongoing
> open-source development of CL implementations.  So I'm not up to date on
> what the SBCL community has been up to -- I'm just happy to be able to use
> SBCL for my own AI research.
> >> >
> >> > For some years I've been working on a symbolic knowledge-base system
> called Scone, which is implemented in SBCL.  I've been working on a book on
> Scone and "Knowledge-Based AI".  When the book is released I want people to
> be able to experiment with the open-source Scone code with as little hassle
> as possible.
> >> >
> >> > I expect that most of the user community will be running on Mac with
> Apple silicon (ARM64) and on Windows machines running on the latest Intel
> chips.  I think that the number of Linux users (and people comfortable with
> Linux shell hackery) will be much smaller.
> >> >
> >> > So as part of the Scone release, I would like to provide a clear,
> uncomplicated set of instructions for setting up an up-to-date
> Emacs/Slime/SBCL environment on current MacOS systems, and a separate
> script for setting this up on Windows.  The "Getting Started" page on SBCL
> SourceForge is more complicated than necessary for this task, and contains
> some Linux shell hackery that may be intimidating.   If necessary, I can
> play around with some installations and produce these scripts -- or, at
> least, the one for MacOS -- but it would save me time if someone already
> has done this.  Any help would be appreciated -- and probably would be
> useful to others as well.
> >> >
> >> > (In recent years I have just relied on the Portacle package for easy
> installation of an Emacs/Slime/SBCL environment.  Sadly, Portacle is no
> longer being maintained, and the old versions are now quite out of date --
> no version with recent Apple Silicon components, for example.)
> >> >
> >> > Many thanks,
> >> > Scott E. Fahlman
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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