Hi Waldek, congratulations for Fricas. I started using it recently and I am 
very impressed. I have some comments.


   - It was not obvious to me that Fricas had a graphical interface. This 
   prevented me from using for some time. Some notes about how to start fricas 
   and how to best use it would be welcome for newbies.
   - I use OS X. This is another reason why I was not able to use the 
   graphical interface: one has to explictly supply --x-includes and 
   --x-libraries. Would it be possible to automatically detect this?
   - I had to fix ECL on a couple of places. The problem is that is a file 
   on Fricas called float.lsp. This float.lsp, when compiled, leads to a 
   float.h which,as you may guess, conflicts with /usr/include/float.h I have 
   changed the extension of header files in CVS, so that now the files 
   generated will be float.c float.eclh and float.data, no conflicts expected.
   - Fricas from CVS fails to build at all with ECL. Unfortunately SBCL from 
   Fink also does not build Fricas. I believe the problems are totally 
   unrelated, but I would like to be able to debug the problem with Fricas: all 
   I get is an "Internal Error" message, no debugger, no hints on how to 
   proceed.

I believe it should be pretty easy to bundle Fricas and ECL in a DMG bundle 
for easy distribution in OS X. You may consider this for the upcoming 
release.

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