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

Scott E. Fahlman wrote on Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 02:10:46PM -0400: 
> 
> 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.

Hello, how have you been?

> 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.

A custom script installing some hardcoded, custom versions of SBCL,
Emacs and SLIME would have the disadvantage that it could potentially
clash with later use of Common Lisp and installing different versions
by accident when following canonical instructions.  Especially with
SLIME.

I use SBCL on Mac from (home)brew and it is technically good.  Not a
one-click to get going either, but it would give the user an SBCL and
Emacs that won't clash with later use of CL.

Installation of SLIME would probably be best served by a CL "script"
distributed with Scone, possibly running at first startup.


Or a docker image
/ducks

Martin
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