[Openmcl-devel] Porting Franz's environment access system

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ron Garret wrote:

> Franz has this wizzy thing:
>
> http://www.lispwire.com/entry-proganal-envaccess-des
>
> but it doesn't work in CCL.  Would anyone besides me have an interest
> in making it work?  How hard would it be?

I would be interested in any well written library that increases the  
capabilities of common lisp across implementations. Franz's  
environment access appears to be such a library. In addition, a port  
to ccl would bring pressure on other implementors to integrate it with  
their implementations as it would progressively assume de-facto  
standard status, much as cl-ppcre, or asdf have.

Of course, as Duane has said, "porting is not completely trival," so  
it would fall to someone with much more knowledge of ccl internals  
(e.g., Gary) to weigh in on how much work it would be to integrate  
this with ccl.

warmest regards,

Ralph


Raffael Cavallaro
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