[cl-semantic-devel] Choice of Lisp

[brandon.werner at mac.com]

All:

There has been some debate among the researchers about which CL to  
use for this project. Although I have experience with both SBCL and  
Allegro, it would appear that Allegro is not going to release their  
8.0 evaluation version anytime soon and this is the only version that  
includes the asdf: functionality we will be using to maintain and  
install builds of cl-semantic.

Yes asdf can be easily added to Allegro, but SBCL is very easy to  
setup, and in a project where are are attempting to get as many  
developers interested as possible, many whom may not have university  
access to Allegro, it seems important that we have a CL that is ready  
right out of the box (we may even group all the source for Wilber and  
other necessary requires in to one .gz for easy deployment in to each  
developer's repository).

However, from my experience using SLIME with Allegro and SBCL, SBCL  
is extremely slow and is generally buggy on OSX do to Apple's Crash  
Reporter actively looking for Mach exceptions because Mac OSX has no  
idea that a program can do  a SIGSEGV and keep on living.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I would also like suggestions on a GUI environment for cl-semantic,  
perhaps ltk (uses Tk).

Also, please start posting directly to the message group instead of  
to individual email addresses so that we can leverage our new home at  
common-lisp.net. We have had many people joint the development and  
announce list and we owe it to them to let everyone know what is  
going on, even if they have yet to join the project.

Thanks!

Brandon Werner
cl-semantic project administrator
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-semantic/
brandon.werner at mac.com

cl-semanic is a collection of RDF/OWL extraction and relationship  
parsing macros written in Common Lisp.




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