Hi Aaron and Philippe,
>On a different topic: apparently nobody has responded to the
>original offer to test the Darwin+PC port (though several people are
>interested int he OSX port). Does that mean no common lisp users are
>interested in Darwin?
I am very interested in testing all aspects of Poplog on Darwin
including Common Lisp, Standard ML and Prolog.
However, there are no instructions for testing or installation or
anything - and this is off-putting. Now I may be the only one
who thinks like this - but I reckon we need a few paragraphs explaining
to would-be testers what is required.
[1] How to install AND uninstall.
[2] How to configure and get started.
[3] What kind of things need testing.
[4] How and who to report problems to. Ideally an HTML form to
fill in or, less work, a report template.
After all, no point in doing anything unless [4] is crystal clear!
It may also be worth adding that the release notes,
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/darwin+pc/PoplogDarwinReleaseNotes.txt,
are difficult to follow in places. In particular:
>This Port was not completed because some generated assembler
>instructions for Darwin were not accepted. However, since the
>main goal was reached (to modify the Linux-Poplog
>system calls so they were recognized by the Darwin Kernel),
>it was decided to ignore this problem and to continue with the next
>stages to achieve the final (and more important) objective (to
>port poplog into Mac OS X).
It is unclear to me how one can continue with the port with this
assembler problem in place. Does this mean that the offending assembler
will be rewritten by hand?
--
Steve
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