[elephant-devel] Documentation / Backends

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:19:50 -0400, Ian Eslick <eslick at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> FYI - I've been hacking on the skeleton of an all-lisp backend, but
> would welcome collaboration or even taking a back seat if someone
> else was motivated to write one.

I have vague plans for such a thing, but I have several plans for
other projects as well, not to mention my commercial Lisp work, so
don't hold your breath... :)

> Also, the new manual will be available online in texinfo-tree form,
> a single HTML file and in PDF.  I'm happy to take your suggestion
> and supply a pre-build version of all these files in the
> distribution and source control.  The lack of that has bugged me in
> the past as well.  As part of the manual rewrite, I've been cleaning
> up the build process and when I'm done it should work if you have
> texinfo, tex and sbcl installed on your system.  There is also a
> manual procedure to do this in other lisps that I will document in
> the Install section of the new manual.

Sounds good!