[Openmcl-devel] making contributions to ccl easier (by using git?)

[mikel evins]

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-12-01 0:22 GMT+03:00 mikel evins <mevins at me.com>:
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> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2015-11-30 23:53 GMT+03:00 mikel evins <mevins at me.com>:
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> > > On Nov 30, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > As I said in the parallel thread, I would prefer the installator for Linux (sh bundle),
> > > the installator for Windows, the dmg for Mac OS X, the sources + binaries tarball,
> > > and the Git repo which contains shell scripts for downloading appropriate binaries
> > > and hooks which runs this scripts automatically.
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> > Are you volunteering to write and test those pieces of software? Or are you volunteering somebody else to do it?
> > First of all, I'm new to Lisp and only on the way of learning it. I know a little about CCL
> > (but I like it, as well as SBCL), and I completely forget SVN (didn't touch it since 2010).
> > I also didn't have a much time to be volunteer due to my workload. So, it would be
> > interesting to investigate and implement it, but it can take a long time in my case.
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> It seems like you’re trying to persuade the CCL team to switch to git, and to adopt a distribution strategy that you would prefer. That new strategy appears to involve some new tools and practices.
> No, I'm not trying to persuade the CCL team. I just suggest one possible option which
> (in my opinion) would make CCL more attractive, especially for new lispers which are
> potential CCL contributors/developers.

Fair enough. My mistake.