On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 10:29:44AM +0100, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 8:44 AM Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 19.06.23 09:22, Grégory Vanuxem wrote:
> > > I wonder why you're using such an old LISP?
> >
> > Waldek wants to make sure that jfricas also works with the sbcl that he
> > puts into the binary fricas release. In fricas-1.3.8 this was
> > sbcl-1.1.1. So I presume that I should test 1.1.1.
>
> it's wishful thinking that SBCL 1.1.1.1, released in 2012, will
> correctly work on all modern OSs.
> Waste of time, if you ask me...
Well, download binary 1.3.8 (based on sbcl 1.1.1) and try it. It
works on all systems available to me and up to now I had no report
of failure due to incompatibility with the system. Of course,
at some time we will have to move to newer version. But using
newest version is essentially warranted to fail on some systems,
so we need to choose correctly.
More generaly, if you declare everything more than 3.5 years as
obsolete and decide to break it, that is your right. But not all
folks adapt such point of view and it is possible to create
binaries compatible with wide range of system versions. Of
course, I need to avoid unstable dependencies (or at least have
some way to tame them), otherwise I would be hostage to other
folks breaking my binaries.
--
Waldek Hebisch
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