Re: [pro] CL-PDF on ACL 9.0 - using Quicklisp works

2014-08-22 Thread Dave Cooper
Hi Martin, Are you delivering a runtime with cl-pdf? If so, note the initialization stuff in zzinit.lisp for the afm directories. I actually added that file, to improve flexibility for runtime delivery (as it was, it assumed you were always loading from fasls and the default afm directory was in

[pro] Jonl

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Haflich
[Sorry if this isn't quite the usual business for this list.] I've been wanting to get in touch with my old X3J13 colleague JonL White, but email to his last known good address got no response. He is one of the important contributors to Lisp development over the past half century. I believe he i

Re: [pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread Anton Vodonosov
22.08.2014, 21:02, "Zach Beane" : > Erik Huelsmann writes: >>  Do you also see a role for cl-test-grid here, which tests quicklisp >>  packaged libraries on a large number of platforms and may thus provide >>  potential users with the insights they need for their platforms? > > Yes, very much so.

Re: [pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread Zach Beane
Erik Huelsmann writes: > Hi Zach, > > >> > But I agree that library quality / support are important parts of >> > library discovery: if you don't know which ones are generally thought >> > of as good, or which ones have an active support network, how can you >> > ever choose between them? Solving

Re: [pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Zach, > > But I agree that library quality / support are important parts of > > library discovery: if you don't know which ones are generally thought > > of as good, or which ones have an active support network, how can you > > ever choose between them? Solving the library discovery problem is

[pro] CL-PDF on ACL 9.0 - using Quicklisp works

2014-08-22 Thread Martin Mallinson
Ah - success! I could not get asdf to work - see note below since it may be helpful to understand why - but quicklist just worked ... (thanks for the tip Nick) *ASDF Notes (th**is is all ACL 9.0 64bit)* sch(68): (asdf:asdf-version) "3.0.2.3" sch(74): (asdf/operate:load-system "cl-pdf") Error: Comp

Re: [pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread Zach Beane
Nick Levine writes: >> It doesn't seem so obvious as to where to find who might have >> unpicked this already. Or find documentation behind a system and its >> design intent. I.e. although perhaps nothing should be in Quicklisp >> unless pure and solid, it can be quite a goose chase to try to hun

Re: [pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread Nick Levine
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:28:47 +0100 > From: peter > > Not only does Langutils not work (although it can seem to load OK in > some contexts), but it can be tricky to unpick such as > langutils-tokenize::tokenize-stream with its many layers of macro > and readtable optimizations. Googling lead

[pro] Langutils

2014-08-22 Thread peter
From Re: [pro] CL-PDF in ACL 64bit - anyone know how to get 64bit ZLIB? At 5:27 AM +0100 14/8/22, Nick Levine wrote: There should be no "try to build" with quicklisp - it's supposed to Just Work. Not only does Langutils not work (although it can seem to load OK in some contexts), but it can be t