[closer-devel] Closer to MOP support for MCL 5.2

[Pascal Costanza]

Hi everybody,

I have checked MCL 5.2 against my MOP test suite, and I have got a  
problem again which was already fixed with a patch for 5.2b6.  
Unfortunately, that patch doesn't work in 5.2.

Very soon, I will switch from my old PowerPC Mac to a new Intel Mac,  
which means that I cannot test MCL against Closer to MOP anymore,  
which will also affect support of ContextL for MCL, and probably some  
other libraries that rely on Closer to MOP.

I don't see a good way out atm, but the two obvious possibilites are  
this:

(1) Could somebody help me figuring out what's wrong with the patch I  
have? The problem in MCL 5.2 is that slot-value (etc.) doesn't call  
slot-value-using-class (etc.) anymore. I have got a patch for that  
from Digitool some time ago, but as I said above, that patch doesn't  
work on 5.2.

(2) Is anybody interested in taking over support for Closer to MOP for  
MCL? I could either open up the darcs repositories for someone who is  
committed to supporting MCL, or we could separate it out into a  
separate repository (which may actually be more convenient).

Any other ideas? Anybody interested?


Best,
Pascal

P.S.: I will definitely continue supporting OpenMCL / Clozure CL!

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