Before I jump on the bandwagon, are there any arguments at all against this? I can see the benefits, and the only cost is in someone other than me making it work...which makes it rather easy to vote +!
John 2008/11/23 Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > mabshoff wrote: >> Hello folks, >> >> this has been discussed a bunch of time, but now finally the first >> official move: I would like to remove clisp and switch over to ecl as >> the base for Maxima as well as the optional FriCAS spkgs. ecl is >> faster, builds and works on way more platforms including 32 and 64 bit >> MSVC and has been supported by Maxima since the 5.16.x release. ecl >> does depend on boehm_gc which is the best of breed garbage collection >> library out there. boehm_gc also has build support by pretty much >> anything out there (inculding 32 and 64 bit MSVC) and we have had it >> as an optional spkg for a while since M2 depends on it. If we get this >> vote going we might see a switch to ecl in 3.2.1 or 3.3. >> > > +1 > > Jaap > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
