On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:05 PM Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
A system not certified by its makers to work on an OS/hardware, because it's way too old, should be avoided, full stop. As well, I imagine that code compiled, for a modern CPU, with an up to date sbcl, will be considerably faster than the one built with sbcl 1.1.1, as the latter has no idea about modern CPUs. > 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. Why do you want to encourage these folks to stay on obsolete OSs, which have reached their EOL, are insecure and buggy? You want them to get hacked? :-) > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/ZJBguyweZz/7VXcd%40fricas.math.uni.wroc.pl. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq3BdUEiC4VJNykGNvwDZ2KzMo5V5RP%2BY%2BwOk7Zym79sEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
