Re: ANN: ABLE 0.4
- From: philip.armitage@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:37:12 -0700
On 30 Aug, 08:54, Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blaze...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Aug 29, 11:59 pm, philip.armit...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
ABLE is an open source Common Lisp IDE. It runs on Linux and Windows
with either CLISP or SBCL.
Thanks for your reply bobi.
Windows users are discusted to build anything from source unless
somebody point something like
Couple of comments here. Firstly, you don't have to build anything.
You can of course compile the source if you wish but it's not
essential. One of the things on my todo list is to conditionally
compile the files on first load but I need to stop being lazy and ask
on here for the recommended practice for this. Secondly, I did provide
a fully self contained Windows binary for 0.3 (even including a single
file TCL/TK) but this time I haven't. The reasons are numerous but
include:
- I don't run Windows so it's a bit tricky for me to build for
Windows.
- I compiled to .exe with CLISP but people wanted to use SBCL.
- According to my logs there was still a 10:1 ratio of people
downloading the src to the binary.
- I don't have a lot of webspace/bandwidth so those huge SBCL
downloads hurt me.
There are fairly detailed instructions in the README for getting up
and running on Windows. I guess if that's too much for people to go
through then I'll have to look at binary distributions again but these
will be with CLISP (see below for why).
So assuming there is not too much work for you if you make a bundle of
able and sbcl that i could install or unzip and click to start it
under windows xp your userbase will grow for at least 33.33333% .
I can't seem to get ABLE to run reliably under SBCL on Windows. It
works well with CLISP on Windows and it works well with both CLISP and
SBCL on Linux. But it crashes on Windows with SBCL. As I don't have
free-time access to a Windows machine this hasn't been looked into
closely but I will try to in the future (although I don't have a lot
of money to throw away on an operating system right now, I'd hoped
those days were long over for me!).
If you make something that could deliver those juicy 25mb sbcl exe
than you should start thinking going commercial.
I appreciate the comment but I'm not quite so ambitious! My aim was to
write something free for the people (like myself) who were asking "I
don't understand emacs but I like DrScheme but would prefer to program
in CL. Is there anything available?" Now I'm not saying I'm even close
to DrScheme which is a lovely program but this is more what I'm aiming
for.
--
Phil
http://phil.nullable.eu/
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