Greetings! Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
> Donald Winiecki <dwinie...@boisestate.edu> writes: > > | Hi Camm and everyone, > | > | Apologies for the appearance of non-activity on my part. My WinXP machine > has > | been struggling for awhile and has given up the ghost -- so to say. I knew > | this was going to happen eventually but didn't expect it presently. (It's > | struggles may have been behind my inability to build a GCL-ansi variant on > | WinXP.) > | > | Since the only reason to try and get an WinXP machine up and running would > be > | to help out with WinXP tests of GCL -- and I don't know who might be using > | WinXP still -- I'm not sure it's worth an entire machine to do this. > > Hi Don, > > I do believe it makes sense to have a GCL build test. GCL is still one > of the very few Lisp systems that used to build (e.g. in gcl-2.6.8pre > some years) native Lisp systems. For the AXIOM systems (especially > OpenAxiom), it is the standard Lisp system. > > I do have access to a Windows XP (32-bit) box, and a Windows 7 (64-bit) box. > I can conduct the tests if you have developed some methods. > > Camm, the Windows boxes I have access to are `mobile' laptops so I do > not know how to manage access to them (plus I know Windows just about to > be dangerous). > OK. Is there yet a reason to believe that open axiom might/should build under wine? Should this be pursued? Take care, > | > | If you all think it is important to have an winXP-proven build I can pursue > | putting a virtual machine on my Vista box and install XP into it -- but > event > | this wouldn't be a `real' WinXP installation. > | > | What do you all think? Do we try to make sure it works on WinXP or do we > stop > | at 2.6.7 for XP? > > Yes. > > PS: I jut came back from short vacation and semester just started here, > so things are a bit hectic... > > -- Gaby > > > > -- 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
