John Wiseman wrote:

> I tried Lispbox for OS X/PPC, ACL 8.0.

I just took the Windows version for a spin on my XP development laptop.

[snip]

> Is there some reason that the installer is an installer as opposed to
> just letting me drag a folder somewhere?  Did it explain somwhere why
> it needed me to authenticate and I missed it?  Would it be possible at
> least to let me choose to install to somewhere other than
> /Applications?

The Windows installer similarly doesn't give you a choice of where to 
put LispBox, it installs into a directory it creates in C:\Program 
Files. Later in the installation, the Franz Allegro CL Express Edition 
installer gives you a choice of both where to save the downloaded 
installer and the installer itself asks where you want it installed. I 
made only one non-default change, which was to have Allegro CL Express 
installed in C:\Dev\acl80-express instead of C:\Program Files\acl80-express.

[snip]

> And then the one that stopped me:

Mine was the batch script. Any attempt to use it to run Emacs failed, 
with Emacs crashing and bringing up a DrWatson (which in XP lets you 
report the crash to Microsoft, if you want). Initially, I thought this 
may have been due to an address stack layout randomization (ASLR) 
subsystem I have running, but after adding execptions as per my other 
Lisps and programs which don't like ASLR, Emacs still blows up every 
time. Maybe someone without ASLR can duplicate my install (with that one 
directory change) and see what happens.


-- 
Dan Moniz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [http://pobox.com/~dnm/]
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