Hi, I recently read the new Windows/SBCL installation guide ( http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/WindowsSBCL) and had a few comments and suggested changes.
I guess I have edit privileges for the wiki, but I don't want to go over anyone's head, and wasn't clear on the appropriate procedures for changing things. Thus the rest of this email. (But if you'd rather I just change the wiki, I can do that too.) Here are my comments on the Windows/SBCL installation guide: Directory Structure: I don't think we should specify the install location for the user. SBCL works with spaces in the path, and so do SDL and all the other libraries needed for Lispbuilder. So if a user has their own idea of what they want, they'll have it anyways. And if they don't, the default install location for SBCL should work fine. LISPBUILDER-SDL & Binaries: This is a nitpick, but you could make source and downloads links instead of bold. sbclrc: The directory section of this code doesn't need to be longer than one line: (pushnew "C:\\sbcl\\site\\*\\" asdf:*central-registry* :test 'equal) Which has the additional advantages that if the user wants to start installing more libraries, all they have to do is drop them into the site\ directory and restart lisp. Starting SBCL: This is painful to type, and shouldn't be necessary if using the SBCL binary installer properly (since the installer should set SBCL_HOME to "C:\\sbcl\\"). rlwrap: What exactly are we writing this guide for? If this is aimed solely to get SBCL and Lispbuilder working, then this section is unnecessary. If this is aimed to give the user a decent development environment, then rlwrap alone, while nice, falls quite short. (I infrequently use the SBCL terminal prompt itself, but instead the SLIME REPL, so I personally would skip this step either way.) You explicitly state that you don't go over Emacs installation, so I would lean toward just removing this entirely and writing a seperate IDE (Emacs?) setup guide if that is desirable. -- Elliott Slaughter "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank Herbert
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