On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:10 AM, John Wiseman wrote: > I tried Lispbox for OS X/PPC, ACL 8.0. > > I had a few more or less cosmetic issues, but I think they're > significant: > > Is there some reason that the installer is an installer as opposed to > just letting me drag a folder somewhere?
Dunno. I just followed Emacs's lead here. > Did it explain somwhere why > it needed me to authenticate and I missed it? Nope. That's a consequence of some flag or another the install foo that I cargo culted from Emacs. > Would it be possible at > least to let me choose to install to somewhere other than > /Applications? Probably, with the appropriate hacks to the installer. Probably turning it into a drag-this-folder-wherever install is a better bet though. > The default font in the supplied Emacs looks pretty bad in OS X[1], > and I can't seem to change the font from the default. Maybe a nice > lucida sans typewriter 12 pt? Well, some of this may get better when I next upgrade the Emacs sources I'm using; I just rebuilt my personal emacs the other day and the fonts seemed to have changed. Maybe for the better. > And then the one that stopped me: > > When I pointed it at the license file I downloaded from Franz > (~/Desktop/minted) I got the following error: "Opening output file: > permission denied, /Applications/Lispbox/acl80_express/devel.lic" This is due, I think to some small change Kevin made to the build scripts that he shouldn't have. I'm working with him on that. In the meantime you can go chmod /Applications/Lispbox/acl80_express to 0777 and you should be good, I think. -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
