On Monday 19 December 2005 21:04, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote: > The clx problem was that the packaged cl-clx-sbcl in Ubuntu doesn't work > in newer SBCLs, but the packaging system has no way of knowing that.
Well this is because I forgot to put in a Conflicts: entry. Fixed Now. > My concern is how we can address this issue in the garden. This is a > particularly bad kind of library-vs-implementation issue, where the bug > is present only in particular combinations of library version and > implementation version. Can we capture version information in our > compatibility matrix? I consider this problem to be _bad_ behaviour by the sbcl people. A library interface should never go out of fashion like that... > Second issue is interaction with packaging systems. Debian (and Ubuntu) > have a pretty comprehensive set of common lisp libraries and > implementations available in their packaging systems, but even there, > not all libraries work in all implementations, and the packaging system > doesn't really capture the full set of dependencies. It cannot capture what you don't put in :-S. Put it in and it will. Groetjes, Peter -- signature -at- pvaneynd.mailworks.org http://www.livejournal.com/users/pvaneynd/ "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr | "God is more forgiving." Dave Aronson| _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
