On 01/04/2010 05:29 PM, Jerry James wrote: > One of the first issues we'll have to face is the use of common-lisp-controller. > First, it postpones compilation to the first time the application is > executed by a particular Common Lisp engine. For the application I > packaged, PVS [2], compilation takes a significant amount of time. > This approach may be fine for small libraries and applications, but > will it really scale up to the some of the big applications people > want to package? No. That'd be rediculous; big CL applications can take a LONG time to compile, and compilation usually requires lots of memory (even if the final application doesn't). Fedora has lots of applications written in many other compiled languages like C and C++, and they aren't distributed *only* as source code. Instead, people expect that when they download the binary they'll get a pre-compiled, ready-to-go version. I think the same should be true for big Common Lisp (CL) applications. If you want a distribution that requires you to recompile *everything* from scratch, go to Gentoo or similar. There should be pre-compiled versions of large CL applications, as maxima-sbcl is right now and the upcoming pvs-sbcl will be. Alexander Kahl: > Are you (or is anyone else here) interested in founding a Common Lisp SIG? I'm interested. --- David A. Wheeler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
