[Bese-devel] SBCL on Mac OS X

[Waldo Rubinstein]

Hi guys,

Let me apologize if this is not the most appropriate place to post  
this, but, ultimately, I'm trying to develop UCW apps :)


I have been doing some minor development with UCW on Mac OS using  
OpenMCL. However, because my deployment environment will be a Linux  
box, I plan on using SBCL for production. The problem I have is that  
some of the libraries I'm using behave differently in OpenMCL and  
SBCL (most likely bugs, which I have been reporting and are being  
fixed). Because I'm not a LISP "guru" yet, I don't have the man power  
nor sufficient knowledge to fix these problems.

Therefore, I wanted to develop in the same environment my application  
will be deployed. That way, I can concentrate on testing under one  
environment and reduce the amount of "guessing" which environment is  
at fault, if there is a fault from the environment at all. The  
problem, as we all know, is that SBCL does not seem to run in multi- 
threaded mode under Mac OS X.

I could follow Marco's example on the video by connecting SLIME to a  
remote machine, but because most of the work I do is on a laptop and  
I'm mobile 75% of the time, I prefer to be able to work locally.

So, onto the question: how do you guys recommend working with UCW in  
SBCL under Mac OS X? I searched the archives because I remember  
asking a similar question in the past and I believe the most  
appropriate answer was that whenever a bug popped up and I needed a  
debugger, I could suspend the UCW app, correct what needed to be  
corrected, and the resume the app. Well, if this is indeed the most  
appropriate answer, how do you do that? :)

Thanks,
Waldo