On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:17 AM, Alexis Gallagher wrote: > Hi, > > I recently got SBCL running on my Intel Mac. This is mostly just a > matter of finding the binary on Cyrus's blog > (http://www.cyrusharmon.org/cl/blog/display/47). > > But in the course of this hunt, I noticed how outdated and incomplete > the Common Lisp Cookbook page was on installing a CL environment on > OS X > (http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/windows.html). I started writing a > HOWTO for installing SBCL + Aquamacs + SLIME. > > Then it occurred to me that this was a waste of time and that all the > cookbook page really needs is just a link to the LispBox project. > > But when I went to the lispbox project, I noticed that it delivers a > .pkg installer instead of app bundles. I fear .pkgs, because I don't > know how to uninstall them afterwards. So I had a few questions: > 1) is there any way to uninstall the lispbox?
Just delete the .app directory it creates. And if you really want to be tidy, delete the corresponding directory under /Library/Receipts/ It may be possible to create a .pkg that does more than create a single .app directory but that seems rare. > 2) do any lispboxes work for OS X on Intel? Nope. If you want to try and make one, the Lispbox "sources" are available (and almost completely undocumented) at: <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lispbox/lispbox-0.7.106.tar.gz> Or you can send me a Macbook and I'll build one. ;-) > 3) why did the OS X lispbox go with emacs instead of aquamacs? (just > curious...please don't lynch me) Because I'm old school. And because part of the the point of Lispbox for me was to provide an environment that was as much the same between different OS's and different Lisps so I didn't have to constantly be explaining things different ways in my book. > Whatever the answers, I'm guessing the number of people who are both > running OS X on Intel and are also paranoid about pkgs is small enough > that the world doesn't need another installation howto.... Yeah, I hadn't heard of .pkg paranoia before. And there probably will be an OS X/Intel Lispbox one of these days, either when I get a Macbook or when someone else builds it, whichever comes first. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
