RE: [Axiom-developer] Request for testing (Win32 users)

[Gregory Vanuxem]

Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 19:31 -0500, Bill Page a écrit :
> Greg,
> 
> On February 11, 2007 4:53 PM you wrote:
> > ...
> > I wrote:
> > > I get the following result on by Windows XP SP2 system while
> > > running under Cygwin, using 'wget ...' and 'tar xjvf' to
> > > extract the binary and setting the AXIOM variable:
> > >
> > > $ echo $AXIOM
> > > /home/Administrator/axiom-sbcl-win
> > 
> > This is a native Windows application so SBCL does not
> > understand the path used (Cygwin specific).
> >
> 
> Duh! I should have realized ... thanks.
> 
> You it works. Great job. I think this is a great step forward
> for a fully ANSI-compliant common lisp implementation of Axiom.
> I can't resist to ask: Have you tried building this version of
> Axiom with GCL in ANSI mode?

No, I dropped support of GCL because of spurious bugs: (cond ...)
handled strangely (a runtime problem apparently). But I added some
modifications to allow it to run on the "ANSI" version of GCL. They are
not tested of course.

> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> PS. Could you explain the phrase: "Kitten of Death" :-)

No :-) It comes from the SBCL banner (on Windows only).

Greg