Weird, PL has always been that rare thing for me that just builds flawlessly without any whining about missing dependencies, in like 5 seconds, on Ubuntu.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > Ubuntu stopped to update PicoLisp in its distribution. I noticed that > the next Ubuntu release (yakkety) still has only PicoLisp 15.11 !! > > This is rather bad. That version will be about one year old when yakkety > comes out, with several flaws and bugs which were fixed meanwhile. > > > I filed a bug report > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606142 > > but during more than one month nothing happened. > > The claim is that they cannot build the PicoLisp executable. But 15.11 > uses exactly the same build process, and Kan-Ru Chen builds it that way > perfectly for Debian. > > > This means that the next Ubuntu release in October - and in consequence > depending distributions like Mint - will come with that buggy version :( > > How can we get the Ubuntu people to take action? Any ideas? > > Best, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
