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.
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