[mcclim-devel] Re: Beagle backend requirements?

[Duncan Rose]

Oops, didn't notice this was posted to the list as well... this is how 
I responded to Brian's chandler address:

On Thursday, June 2, 2005, at 01:45  am, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
>
> What version of OpenMCL is required for running the Beagle backend? 
> Right now current CVS won't run on 0.14.3 with an error about ObjC 
> ARRAY.
>
> Should I get bleeding edge or current 0.14 CVS?
>

I'm currently using the outdated 0.14.1-p1 version, on 10.2

I've heard from Rainer Joswig that Beagle doesn't compile under the 
latest OpenMCL (but no more than that it fails 'with a type error'; 
presumably the same thing you're seeing); there's still quite a lot of 
discussion on the OpenMCL list regarding problems with the ObjC bridge 
under the latest OpenMCL versions (and I'm pretty sure Jaguar is not 
intended to be supported any longer by later OpenMCL versions) so I 
haven't done an upgrade (I'm seriously considering forking out for a 
new iBook though, at which point I will be upgrading ;-).

Could you send me the actual error report? At the moment I'm guessing 
from your description that the problem is likely to be in 
%COCOA-IMAGE-FROM-PATTERN in OUTPUT;MEDIUM.LISP however I don't believe 
any ObjC arrays are used directly by the code (I'm classing C arrays 
(char * etc) and ObjC (NSArray) arrays differently, although perhaps I 
shouldn't in the context of this issue).

-Duncan

> Thanks!
>
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