Hi,

I'd like to get an idea what the current plans for RMCL are, if any. Since the 
switch to OS X 10.7, there is no default support for old PowerPC applications 
on OS X anymore, so RMCL doesn't work anymore, at least not without a major 
effort. Are there any plans to find a remedy for this situation? Or will RMCL 
effectively become deprecated?

I'm asking for the following reasons: When ASDF was changed from 1.x to 2.x, 
this caused some problems for RMCL, which I eventually resolved by using Common 
Lisp's logical pathnames for the systems I maintain (primarily Closer to MOP 
and ContextL). However, the current maintainers of ASDF have an unjustified 
very low regard for logical pathnames, which causes a lot of pain - basically, 
whenever a new version of a Common Lisp implementation comes bundled with a new 
ASDF version, I have to deal with bugs in ASDF that in one way or the other 
break my setup with logical pathnames.

Since my time is limited and is better served on things other than producing 
bug reports for ASDF (which is a tool that should be much more stable than it 
currently is), I decided now that it is better to drop logical pathnames and go 
for the Unix-like names that the ASDF maintainers seem to strongly prefer. RMCL 
would be the only Common Lisp implementation that would cause a problem in this 
regard.

So, what's the verdict?


Thanks a lot for any hints!

Best,
Pascal

--
Pascal Costanza
The views expressed in this email are my own, and not those of my employer.




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