[Openmcl-devel] Is Clozure CL still being worked on?

[mikel evins]

…oh, and Lispworks is a non-started for at least some of my pending projects. For example, I’d like to revive Alpaca and build a cross-platform version, but I can’t use Lispworks for that because of license issues.

> On Apr 19, 2021, at 1:09 PM, mikel evins <mevins at me.com> wrote:
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> I poked around but I don’t seem to have them at the moment.
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> Around the last time I built the .ffi files with ffigen, I was also working on some code that parsed BridgeSupport XML files for the purpose of generating FFI calls into the Objective-C runtime.
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> That’s been a while—the latest GUI work I've done uses Electron for the sake of portability—and I don’t know what the status of BridgeSupport is now. I looked around a little and didn’t find any very recent BridgeSupport documentation from Apple.
> 
> I did find that RubyMotion is using a fork of Apple’s BridgeSupport tools that appears to have some fairly recent work going on (https://github.com/amirrajan/rubymotion-bridgesupport <https://github.com/amirrajan/rubymotion-bridgesupport>).
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> I guess I have to say that the best path forward for building native Mac GUIs with Lisp is unclear to me, unless I just punt and use Lispworks.
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2021, at 11:15 AM, michael at stray-hound.com <mailto:michael at stray-hound.com> wrote:
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>> That’s interesting that people have stopped trying to keep up with Apple’s changes.  I totally understand.  I’ve kept a Snow Leopard machine running because afaik that’s the last time Interface Builder was a separate program.
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>> Does anybody have copies of .ffi files made with ffigen4?
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>> I have an idea about how to update the Interface Database.  The problem is that I don’t have a good example of the .ffi files to compare against.
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