[Openmcl-devel] CLIM2 on CCL

[Rainer Joswig]

Does the license allow derived versions? That's not clear to me.
It talks about "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms".

https://github.com/franzinc/clim2/blob/master/LICENSE

> Am 25.07.2016 um 17:30 schrieb Craig Lanning <craig.t.lanning at gmail.com>:
> 
> Just recently, I found out that Franz, Inc. had released their CLIM2
> source code used in Allegro CL to GitHub
> (https://github.com/franzinc/clim2).  I have forked it (https://github.
> com/craigl64/clim2) and started trying to get it to compile in ccl.
> Hence my question a couple of weeks ago about Platform Specific GUI.
> 
> I received an answer, but have not gotten far enough to make use of it.
> 
> I am excited about this version of CLIM because I have built clim based
> interfaces before, but was only able to run them in LispWorks CLIM or
> Symbolics CLIM.  I tried to use McCLIM, but found that it didn't work
> the same way that Symbolics and LispWorks did.  Since Franz was one of
> the original developers (along with Symbolics and Harliquin) of the
> CLIM II Specification, I am hoping that this clim implementation is
> very similar, if not identical, to that used by Symbolics and Harliquin
> (now LispWorks).

> I am targetting ccl because the ccl documentation talked about getting
> to platform specific graphical tookkits like cocoa/carbon, gtk2/gnome,
> win32/win64 and I am about to develop a CLIM based application that I
> need to run on MacOSX, Linux, and Windows.  I also like that if I can
> build the application in ccl, I can build both 32-bit and 64-bit
> versions on all three platforms.

The difficult part is to develop useful backends for macOS.
That's tough.

> 
> I have not pushed any of my changes back to the GitHub repo in my
> account, yet.  I was trying to wait until I got it to compile.
> 
> I have run into a few issues.  One may be a side effect of how clim2
> was originally set up to build.  I may need to reorganize the sequence
> of how it gets built.
> 
> I will post additional messages to this list for the issues that I have
> run into so that they can be discussed individually.  This message was
> more of a kind of status report so that people would understand better
> why I asked that question a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> Craig Lanning
> 
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