[cxml-devel] Problems with Xuriella on LispWorks

[David Lichteblau]

Quoting Jochen Schmidt (jsc at crispylogics.com):
...
> I've 
> fixed those issues locally here and Xuriella runs now withing my 
> LispWorks setup. If you're interested in what I've done; how should I 
> make my changes available?

I'm definitely interested, since I don't test on LispWorks myself.

Any ordinary patch using a unified diff would be fine, although
git-format-patch or simply a copy of your repository that I can pull
from using HTTP are also good (and have the advantage that you're listed
as the committer).

Did you also have to make changes to plexippus?  Right now, plexippus
has correct IEEE float handing only on SBCL, so some work in that area
would have to be done.  An easy route might be to implement everything
from xnum.lisp using FFI calls to libc functions.  Without these
changes, some tests from the XSLT test suite are bound to fail.

In case you have the chance, it would be interesting to see test suite
results with your changes.  Since there's a preprocessing step involved,
which parses the test suite descriptions, you'd want to use the
following tarball with a preprocessed test suite, rather than the
upstream XSLT testsuite tarball:

http://common-lisp.net/project/xuriella/xuriella-XSLT-testsuite-04.tar.bz2


But please send in your patch either way -- as long as it improves the
LispWorks situation at all, it's very welcome, even if it's not perfect
yet.


Thanks,
d.