Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:25:28PM +0100, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Robert Schweikert <rschweikert@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > > openSUSE uses clisp 2.44.1. This is from February 2008 and the latest
> > > version is 2.48. Why does openSUSE not use a more recent version?
> >
> > Probably a maintainer resource issue. If you have interest in the
> > package, maybe you could upgrade it and maintain it.

Correct as I'm out of time to hunt every version of clisp
and currently there is no libffcall for all architectures
nor does clisp work on all architectures which is very
annoying (this is system inherent as clips uses architecture
depending assembler code)

> > Here is a starting point:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial
>
> I just started with Common Lisp and I am using clisp because this one is
> in the repository. In the future I properly will switch to sbcl. But in
> principal I would not mind to maintain clisp (and maybe also sbcl). But
> how much time I should expect I need to invest?
>
> One problem:
>     You should have a good understanding about the creation of RPMs.

you may use my OSB spex as starting point :)

      Werner

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