[web4r-devel] Error conditions when loading web4r for the first time

[Tomo Matsumoto]

> I am planning to support more lisp implementations within a month.

web4r v0.2.8 supports Allegro CL 8.1 on Linux x86 :)

Tomo

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Tomo Matsumoto<tomoyuki28jp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Harrison,
>
>> What platforms does web4r work best on?
>
> Linux + SBCL
> See detail at http://web4r.org/en/install
>
> I am planning to support more lisp implementations within a month. The
> candidates are Clozure CL and Allegro because Elephant officially
> supports only those implementations.
> http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/platforms.html
>
>> I am not an expert programmer; I am teaching myself programming by
>> writing a simple but interesting web app and I thought web4r was the
>> framework to work with.
>
> Thanks for choosing web4r. I am really glad to hear that :)
>
>> From the Mudballs manual at http://mudballs.com/ : Mudballs is a "System
>> Management Tool for Common Lisp.
>
> Looks interesting.  I didn't know that. I will take a look at it and
> consider that. Thanks for the info, Harrison.
>
> Tomo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Harrison Maseko<lispmr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply, Tomo. What platforms does web4r work best on? I have
>> an experimental Debian installation which I sometimes play with but I am not
>> that conversant with Linux. Most of the time I spend it on Windows XP and
>> Vista. On Windows I have LispWorks, SBCL running via Cusp in Eclipse, and
>> ACL the trial version, as well as CLISP. I think web4r looks like what I
>> have been missing and I am eager to poke around to see how to get things
>> done. I am not an expert programmer; I am teaching myself programming by
>> writing a simple but interesting web app and I thought web4r was the
>> framework to work with.
>>
>>> What do you mean by mudballs?
>>
>> From the Mudballs manual at http://mudballs.com/ : Mudballs is a "System
>> Management Tool for Common Lisp. Mudballs was written with the goal of
>> providing an easy to use system for loading Common Lisp code into your image
>> in a reliable and predictable manner." Mudballs seeks to be a better system
>> to succeed ASDF. Please check out that website for more details, especially
>> this section http://mudballs.com/#everyones-system which deals with making
>> your system available to others. The mailing list is at
>> http://groups.google.com/group/mudballs/. I like Mudballs' ease of use and
>> simple interface. You would sure make web4r easily accessible to many more
>> by making it available to Mudballs and I would urge you to consider that as
>> an option.
>>
>> Looking forward to your response.
>>
>> Harrison.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tomo Matsumoto [mailto:tomoyuki28jp at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 5:54 PM
>> To: Harrison Maseko
>> Cc: web4r-devel at common-lisp.net
>> Subject: Re: [web4r-devel] Error conditions when loading web4r for the first
>> time
>>
>> Hi Harrison,
>>
>> Thanks for trying web4r.
>>
>> Unfortunately, web4r does not support LispWorks because some depending
>> packages like Elephant does not support LispWorks.
>> http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/platforms.html
>>
>>> 2. The file #P"C:/Program Files/LispWorks Personal/Lisp
>> Libraries/closure-html-2008-11-30/src/parse/unparse.ofasl" does not exist.
>>
>> It seems like you got this error because closure-html is not working on your
>> system.
>> http://common-lisp.net/project/closure/closure-html/
>>
>>> QUESTION 2: Has web4r been made available to mudballs?
>>
>> What do you mean by mudballs?
>>
>> Tomo
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Harrison Maseko<lispmr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello web4r:
>>> Running LispWorks Personal 5.0.1 on Vista, I tried to load web4r using
>>> Edi Weitz's Lisp Starter Pack for the first time ever into my Lisp
>>> image and I experienced the following two hitches:
>>>
>>> 1. Symbol "FIND-OUTPUT-ENCODING" not found at all in the RUNES
>>> package.
>>>
>>> 2. The file #P"C:/Program Files/LispWorks Personal/Lisp
>>> Libraries/closure-html-2008-11-30/src/parse/unparse.ofasl" does not
>>> exist.
>>>
>>> QUESTION 1: What are the consequencies of opting for "continue treating
>> ...
>>> [above condition] as having been successful"? In other words, what
>>> components of the framework will not function properly if these
>>> conditions were ignored and what are the solutions?
>>>
>>> QUESTION 2: Has web4r been made available to mudballs?
>>>
>>> Harrison
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