Greetings! Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 1/22/09, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be nicer if we could do this at startup and just find all of >> the directories in share directory? Then we wouldn't have to maintain >> this list at all, and users can easily add share packages themselves and >> have them automatically available. (Well, perhaps we could keep a few >> of the core share packages in the list, but most would be determined at >> runtime). > > Yes, that's a good idea. Have at it! > >> I played with this a while back, but never finished it. I think, >> however, that all of the lisps we support can do this using the Lisp >> DIRECTORY function with a bit of extra glue to return the right stuff. >> GCL might be a bit more difficult, but I think it can be done there too. > > I believe it is within the realm of possibility that we might stop > working around GCL's idiosyncrasies. > It would be helpful if you could describe what 'idiosyncrasies' you find onerous, and perhaps suggest what type of behavior would be optimal. This is the first I've heard of this, and only by happenstance when catching up on the maxima mailing list. (I have received a suggestion to implement a more native directory function, but was not aware that this was causing any real difficulties in current applications. After reading the above, I still don't understand the issue.) GCL is very much alive, but proceeds in bursts as many open source projects. Needless to say, if the GCL community can do something differently to be more useful for maxima, we'd certainly be open to suggestions. Take care, -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
