[armedbear-devel] Tentative inclusion of JSS with ABCL contrib

Alan Ruttenberg alanruttenberg at gmail.com
Fri May 20 14:52:30 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
> Sick of having Clojure eat ABCL's lunch, I've decided to [start trying to
> include JSS as an ABCL contrib][1] to bring forward a more public platform
> for Java interop experiments on ANSI CL.  Or at least the example of one
> such platform.
>
> [1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13281
>
> I've gotten to the point of eliminating the use of bsh-2.0b4.jar, and most
> of INVOKE-RESTARGS without the jscheme.jar stuff.   Essentially the ABCL
> Java routines have evolved to a point that none of the external JAR
> dependencies should be necessary.  When jscheme.jar is eliminated, we will
> be able to load JSS quite comfortably from abcl-contrib.jar (even over the
> network).  With the additional syntax for ASDF, we will be able to start
> formalizing a packaging mechanism that allows us to mix Lisp/Java libraries
> in a systematic manner.
>
> One question for Alan about the #1"something" form of the JSS macro:  is
> relied on outside of JSS?  It seems like it was introduced to get around a
> bug in abcl-0.18, but doesn't seem to be used anywhere inside the lsw2 code
> base.  I've eliminated it in my port of JSS, but would like confirmation
> that nothing should be using it.

Nothing else is using it.
Best,
Alan

>
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> is nothing to compare to it now."
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