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

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