Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] MIT Scheme for Mac OS X?

[conradwt]

Hi, if you're looking for other developers to bring this to realization, please 
feel free to drop me a note.  OK?  Well, I must go and I look forward to seeing 
the port.

Thanks again,

-Conrad

> Quoting Robert Love <address@hidden>:
> 
> > On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:29 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, is there an implementation MIT Scheme for Mac OS X?  This is
> > > my primary platform and I would like to see what's available for
> > > it.
> >
> > Sadly, I don't believe there is one.  I asked the same thing over a
> > year ago.  I got one or two mumbles after I'd repeatedly asked.
> >
> > Upon looking at it, I see some kind of cross compile will have to
> > happen.  Its not like Guile or other scheme projects that are
> > written in C and you just configure/make/make install.  No, this
> > thing seems to be part C, part scheme and part object files.
> >
> > To me this makes MIT Scheme a whole lot less useful that other
> > flavors of scheme.
> >
> > OSX is now the largest commercial flavor of Un*x and this scheme is
> > not available for it.
> 
> Unlike most other Scheme implementations, MIT Scheme has a native code
> compiler, not just an interpreter or a compiler that generates C code.
> This makes it fast, but porting it to a new architecture is more work
> than just recompiling C code.  Two of us, including one of the
> original authors of the compiler, are working on the G5 port, but we
> have little spare time to do this work, so it's taking a long time.
> We'll certainly announce it here when it's ready.
> 
> Please remember that this is a volunteer effort.  We're excited about
> making this happen, but it takes time.
> 
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