[Openmcl-devel] CCL/OpenMCL *features*

Andrew Shalit alms at clozure.com
Fri Jan 4 13:16:48 PST 2008


I don't think :MCL should be CCL's *features*.  I believe that we've  
agreed to this internally, but that it just hasn't been implemented yet.


On Jan 4, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Rainer Joswig wrote:

>
> Am 04.01.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Gary Byers:
>
>> I think that :DARWIN should be on *features* on any version intended
>> to run on Darwin (and likewise the keywords :LINUX and :FREEBSD.)  
>> I'll
>> try to ensure that that's true in the next release (and get the
>> changes
>> into CVS/SVN soon.)
>>
>>
>
>
> Another *features* issue:
>
> Clozure CL has :MCL on the feature list. I find that I need to edit
> all kinds
> of files because the #+mcl code does not run in Clozure CL
> (lacks FRED, lacks the GUI, has different pathnames, etc.).
>
> In those places I have to change #+MCL into
> #+(and mcl (not clozure-common lisp))
>
> and additionally I then need to add code with
>
> #+clozure-common-lisp
>
> Maybe it needs some shorter feature like :cl-cl or :clcl ?
> Would it be :clozure? But that might conflict with code
> that is only running within projects of the company Clozure ?
>
> Should :mcl really be on the feature list?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer Joswig
>
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