On Nov 24, 7:19 am, Robert Dodier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mabshoff wrote:
Hi Robert,
> > 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.
>
> Michael, can you summarize the status of Maxima + ECL ?
> Compilation / installation issues, test suite, known strangeness ... ?
> By the way, which versions of Maxima and ECL are you using?
> In particular ECL is a rather quickly moving target.
My initial plan is to use 0.9l+one small patch that fixes a build
issue when using an external boehm_gc that is not installed in the
default system places, i.e. /usr or /usr/local. But I am open to
getting some recent git snapshot and giving it a try since ecl seems
to be making a lot of progress. My main testing concern will be the
more exotic platforms, i.e. Linux PPC, Solaris Sparc, Linux Mips 64
and I can hopefully get a guy I know to test it on AIX.
> For the record, there will be the now-usual December release of
> Maxima next month, to be followed by another April, etc.
Yes, I know since I pretty much read every email of the Maxima
developer mailing list. I am looking forward to all the integration
work that Dieter Kaiser has been doing. Once you have a 5.17.0 release
candidate I will try it out with Sage to give feedback about any issue
that pops up on our end so you guys know if there is any trouble and
Sage can always ship the latest stable Maxima release.
> Thanks a lot for your work on Maxima + ECL.
> I know that's only a tiny fraction of all the work you do.
Well, I didn't do much of the actual work so far, so no need to thank
me. But I am glad that ecl seems to be better and better supported by
Maxima and that ecl seems to be getting stronger and stronger.
> FWIW
>
> Robert Dodier
Cheers,
Michael
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