On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:02, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > As usual, I will accept patch. I will not be able to test RMCL anymore.
> 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > asdf-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
