Since I brought it up. +1
On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:18 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > this has been discussed a bunch of time, but now finally the first > official move: I would like to remove clisp and switch over to ecl as > the base for Maxima as well as the optional FriCAS spkgs. ecl is > faster, builds and works on way more platforms including 32 and 64 bit > MSVC and has been supported by Maxima since the 5.16.x release. ecl > does depend on boehm_gc which is the best of breed garbage collection > library out there. boehm_gc also has build support by pretty much > anything out there (inculding 32 and 64 bit MSVC) and we have had it > as an optional spkg for a while since M2 depends on it. If we get this > vote going we might see a switch to ecl in 3.2.1 or 3.3. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
