[Openmcl-devel] openmcl daemon

[Erik Pearson]

--On Friday, April 16, 2004 12:13 AM -0600 Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> 
wrote:

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> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Erik Pearson wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for advice on setting up an openmcl application which
>> replaces the development REPL with one designed to run as a remote
>> server. When this application is deployed, I want to maintain a primary
>> "control" thread, but need it to essentially run a REPL on a network
>> connection, so that I can access the server while it is running and
>> observe it from the inside. Later, I'll want to tweak the way this
>> works, or provide another type of control interface -- through a
>> tradition REPL or maybe not.
>>
>> I've set this sort of thing up on Franz CL, which provides simple hooks
>> to replace the main loop.
>>
>> Anyway, I started browsing through the source for l1-application.lisp,
>> which looks like the right place to be -- but additional pointers,
>> examples, advice would be most welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Erik.
>>
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> There were some messages on this list about a week ago that discussed
> some similar issues (how to change the "application class" and define
> methods to process command-line arguments and control (some) other
> application-specific behavior.)
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> It'd be nice if the search interface on the mailing list archive worked
> (fixing/replacing it is on the to-do list); the messages I'm thinking
> about were in response to a question about using OpenMCL as a scripting
> language.

Thanks Gary, I had looked through the list archives but that thread didn't 
jump out at me... of course, if I read all my openmcl-devel ...


Erik.

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