[Openmcl-devel] Trace/BPT trap with cl-opengl loading

[peter]

At 9:02 PM -0600 10/8/1, Gary Byers wrote:
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>1) The affected code may be in a third-party lisp library; it'd be good if
>    the authors of such libraries made the necessary changes so that people
>    didn't keep running into this.

I second this. If extension loading did as one would expect (just 
load the extension appropriately), it could cut down on everyone in 
parallel (alone) having to work out and hack around the hang-ups.

What chance our having a single entry point for extension loading. 
There any prerequisites could be listed (ie. with documentation and 
URLs to hunt them down if needed). And if not a single require to 
execute, at least an ordered command or action sequence.

I have in mind a high level Apple Menu item for users of the Cocoa 
API, such that extensions can be loaded with dependencies taken care 
of.  So such as Kevin could grab Clozure, fire it up, multiple choose 
extensions to load such as cl-opengl, and hit the ground running in 
minutes.

That might encourage people to try out and incidentally test more 
systems, just because we'd be more aware of them and it would lower 
the entry threshold.