From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C971381F3 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B27DE0BBD; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FE3E0BBB for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KTwH1m0041ap0As5AUUmZR; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:28:46 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KUUl1m0160JMh7c3iUUlVa; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:28:46 +0000 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:28:28 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-science] New Release Of GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Message-Id: <20130831122828.60bd0cc53c5d014741084fcf@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20121106; t=1377966526; bh=GYKhUiD552Msj3C4hozmrjARBiEdFCiY/yhQlDtGMIM=; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:Mime-Version: Content-Type; b=N3xbzbmRF9CsQX8jbPAx2fETxCo4Xic5Tfu98zaIEUodU6dcq680MzHgIlAK//wun 3r5Y9q82umVXJQ0qnqdzgkQZLkuRQp0odb/88Z9ILguBwVqYPkHtraKBOM5y1HroG5 dtcgf81seTE4LxfokdsllgmzA1I1Op8SYv9lY9mrt8EgHePyfC9+gJ9m8MNvozE3Rx 3YVgaqSkYIZoSOIeurCEx3PdOaZQazEvITawN5x9ntCzoD+2mjDgGMeo/LqY+ylpkC KT08sH24YjdzlVjR4f2L00K6+sByOHTeqyzc0lncLZ1rm6WTXMAo7E1BvsujvUVL3C uLGJzngAmDT+g== X-Archives-Salt: e40f68bc-070c-4844-85e7-2feef66b8df6 X-Archives-Hash: 8473253789c7a36f5373b582c1de9553 Hello, GCL, or GNU Common Lisp, has been masked in Gentoo for some time, but it's still the fastest (and best?) Lisp to be used with Maxima, the symbolic math package. The reason for the mask is found in the message when attempting to emerge gcl-2.6.8-pre-release: # Masked for increasingly many problems. Upstream is flaky and hasn't released since 2005. # Maxima is the only consumer and can be built with sbcl or clisp. # Hopefully upstream will do a release that we can add to revive this package. I've been compiling the patched Fedora source (gcl-2.6.8-pre-release) to use with Maxima and it works very well. However, this past week, new final releases of gcl-2.6.8 and gcl-2.6.9 have officilly been made. Does this mean that soon GCL will be unmasked in the portage tree? Also, if anyone happens to know, what is the reason for releasing both gcl 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 together? Should we just skip 2.6.8 entirely and use 2.6.9, or is there still some virtue with 2.6.8? Frank Peters