On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Peter K. Lee wrote: > I'd like to help out as much as I competently can, although I fear I'd > be unfit for taking on an overall maintenance role. > > I was wondering, would we need acl license to hack on Kiwi? > > -Peter
Yes, you need a recent release of Allegro Common Lisp to run Kiwi. Kiwi uses various Allegro specific features including: its DEFSYSTEM, its MySQL interface, its REGEXP package, the current version of Allegro Serve, and a bunch of symbols from the EXCL package which do random things we needed to formatting time strings. The MySQL interface was notably missing from the trial edition, perhaps this has changed. In order for Kiwi to run on non-Allegro systems, somebody would have to do a fair amount of code abstraction. It would be nice if somebody worked on this; however, it's probably more important that an automated procedure for starting-up a fresh Kiwi is implemented and documented first. Plus, there are quite a few bug-fixes needed that users would prioritize above any code reorganizations. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
