On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
> From: Arthur Lemmens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:12:56 +0100 > > > Mikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Again, the big missing features seem to be Unicode support and >> Win32 support. > > If "Win32 support" means "runs on Win32 systems", then I think CLisp > has both Unicode and Win32 support. If "Win32 support" means "a > usable > interface to a reasonable subset of the Win32 API", my impression is > that no open source Lisp has this. (But I've never used CLisp or > SBCL > or CMUCL, so please ignore me if I'm talking nonsense.) > > CMUCL and SBCL do not run on Windows at all, as far as I know. > > Could you detail which open source Lisp implementations you considered, > and could you say specifically what you mean by "usable interface"? > > Consideration is not yet finished; CMUCL and SBCL are just front-runners. We are going to need to, among other things, pop windows up on all target platforms, draw arbitrary bits in them, and do event-handling and hit-testing and so forth in order to make Skate work. There is no open-source Lisp released right now that can do all this on Windows in the way that we need it to, but from conversations with Carl Shapiro it looks like a version of CMUCL that can do it is not unreasonably far in the future. --me
