[cells-devel] update: cells-gtk, cello/os x

[Kenny Tilton]

Bob Hutchison wrote:

> I'm wondering about LispWorks on OS/X? Do you have plans for 
> supporting that combination? 

Absolutely. Cello already gets re-ported occasionally to Lispworks/win32 
just to keep that checkbox filled in. LW is a little fussier than 
AllegroCL, so I usually spend a day finding things which could be a 
little more precise. So it might be a snap once Cello is on OpenMCL/OSX. 
On the other hand, OpenMCL may have been the low-hanging fruit since it 
and MCL are for obvious reasons quite good at dealing with the Mac.

The big question is whether I personally will be using LW. I am eager to 
get back to extending Cello and maybe even doing an application. If I 
decide to use LW (probably) then of course Cello goes there shortly. If 
not, that port awaits the first LW/Mac enthusiast. But I would actually 
stop what I was doing and fire up LW myself at the first sign of trouble 
and join the fray.

> ... Here I am sounding like I'm complaining or something... Nice work 
> Kenny! This is a fascinating project to watch, you have a nice set of 
> core ideas and you are spinning off all kinds of mini projects (that 
> could be full blown projects on their own). I really want to actually 
> *use* it :-) 

Thanks for the encouragement. It /is/ a lot of fun. Do you want to pitch 
in on a joint effort to fill in the LW/OS/X checkbox? If I ever get CVS 
figured out I could put the code up on cl.net. Currently all the test 
demos for each separate library work, as well as using Apple's Glut vs 
Freeglut. You could be checking those out while I try to resuurect the 
full-blown Fabulous Spinning Shape Demo.

btw, anyone who hates Cello but wants to use cl-openal or cl-magick or 
whatever is welcome to start a standalone cl.net project and polish 
those up. I am kind of waiting for interest before taking on the added 
burden.

kt

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