[arch-general] SBCL orphaned for i686?

2009-12-01 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Hi, I'm part of the Paktahn development team; Paktahn is a yaourt-like frontend to Arch package management written in Common Lisp. At the moment SBCL is our main deployment Lisp, and we depend on the 1.0.32 release of SBCL because this release includes a critical patch. We have noticed that SBC

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-03 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:03:26PM -0500, kludge wrote: > alright, alright, ya' got me. the best jokes contain a kernel of truth, > and this one hit real close to home. > > i maintain the basic premise of leslie's comment (serious or not) > is widely held and fundamentally bad for the world. Y

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-02 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:35:34PM -0500, kludge wrote: > > >> Yeah, you better do. > >> > >> It's about time the obsolete i686 branch vanished. Everyone who's > >> still wanting it must be a weenie, and there's no place for those > >> in the Arch philosophy -- go try Redhat or something. > >> > >

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-01 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> I doubt that, besides I'm currently using Arch on my eeePC and even if I > get a new (64 bits) computer anytime soon, I won't maintain two different > distro on both computers. So I'm looking for a new distro to replace Arch. Yeah, you better do. It's about time the obsolete i686 branch vanish

Re: [arch-general] Common Lisp packaging

2009-02-23 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> There is this wiki page that has (or started?) put together guidelines > for the packaging of lisp packages. Interesting, thanks. This page is a bit eclectic right now. Gentoo has an excellent one in its Wiki: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/common-lisp/guide.xml In my opinion the firs

[arch-general] Common Lisp packaging

2009-02-16 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
I've noticed that the Arch Haskell community has made astonishing progress with their packages. I think it would be nice to have the same for Common Lisp. Would anyone be interested in devising a packaging system that works with multiple Lisps? Cheers, Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http: