[Bese-devel] Re: ucw boxset

[Vagif Hagverdiyev]

I'm working on lispworks on windows.

Try (require "comm") instead of (require :comm)

Unfortunately I have gazillion of projects on me. I try very hard to snatch
every minute of my "free" time to learn ucw AND LISP (yes I'm newbee in lisp
too). But it is terribly not enough.
I'm sorry.

If you find someone who is working on windows, knows lisp, ucw and has time
to create an installable package, that would be great.
I've seen a couple of tutorials on ucw. Unfortunately looks like those guys
are linux/macos guys too.

So I guess I'll have to wait on that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Baringer [mailto:mb at bese.it] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:38 AM
To: Vagif Hagverdiyev
Cc: bese-devel at common-lisp.net
Subject: Re: [Bese-devel] Re: ucw boxset

"Vagif Hagverdiyev" <vagif at cox.net> writes:

> Does not work on windows lispworks.
>
> 1. Windows does not have symlinks. So asdf cannot find files.
> I solved this problem following way:
> 1. delete subfolder systems

we know, when we generating the boxset, exactly which .asd files we
need. i've changed the build script so that a lisp file is created
which explicitly loads all these .asd files. asdf:*central-registry*
is still set to ucw-boxset/systems, but i don't think it matters
anymore.

> 2. When loading lispworks.lisp gives error "package comm. Not found".
> Solved by providing (require "comm") before loading lispworks.lisp

is this trivial-sockets' lispworks.lisp? i tried with the personal
edition on MacOS X and not only was it not neccessary but (require
:comm) failed with an error about comm not existing.

> 3. When starting ucw server with httpd gives error: trivial-sockets bla
bla
> not supported.
> Do not know what that means, tried to switch to aserve, got another error,
> gave up.

what lisp are you testing this on? i had to make a few changes to
trivial sockets (after downloading the boxset apply the patches i've
attached to the trivial-sockets directory).

> This is great effort, and in right direction, that you decided to assemble
a
> single download-install package.
>
> But I think it lacks certain thing essential for success of ANY web
> framework.
> In my opinion it is: SPECIFICLY TARGETING WINDOWS!!
> When you will be able to create a download-install package that will
> smoothly run on windows, then you will see start of wide adoption of ucw.

cool, go for it! the scripts used to generate the boxset are in a
darcs repo at:

http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/repos/ucw-boxset

atm they assume openmcl and a unix system (it's just a bunch of shell
scripts) but any patches wolud be welcome.