[armedbear-devel] Patches for metatilities-base and lift

[Mark Evenson]

On 3/22/11 14:47 , Zach Beane wrote:
> Mark Evenson<evenson at panix.com>  writes:
>
>> Patches to get [metatilities-base][1] and [lift][2] as distributed by
>> Quicklisp MAR2011.
>>
>> We really need to either a) make our own Quicklisp distribution or (my
>> preference) b) make a QUICKLISP-PATCH system to apply patches as
>> QL:QUICKLOAD happens.
>
> What about c), asking the author to make changes to support ABCL? That
> seems like the best possible option to me.

Yes, of course we will.  But since QL has monthly publishing windows and 
getting authors to incorporate changes doesn't always happen that 
easily, I still think having some sort of mechanism that canonically 
patches QL distributions would be useful to the ABCL community.


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