Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Date: 25 Oct 2004 21:59:17 GMT
> Organization: ILOG S.A., France
>
> Aaron Sloman wrote:
> > Incidentally, the licence is modelled on the XFree86 licence
>
> I hope you mean, on the X11 license? The XFree86 license has changed
> in unacceptable ways a few months ago.
It is based on the MIT/XFree86 license as it was around 1999. The
precise wording is here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/copyright.html
> > 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?
>
> It more probably means that most people who use Darwin use it on PowerPC,
> not x86 platforms.
Interesting. Is that simply because they are then not restricted to
Apple hardware?
Or does Darwin have some advantags over OSX.
(I have never used Darwin, OSX or any Mac except for a few minutes
about 13 years ago.)
> Instead of porting
> Linux/x86 -> Darwin/x86 -> Darwin/PowerPC -> MacOS X/PowerPC
> it might make more sense to go this route:
> Linux/x86 -> Linux/PowerPC -> Darwin/PowerPC -> MacOS X/PowerPC
> or to skip the intermediate platform altogether.
I think the port to Darwin/x86 was chosen as the easiest thing to do
in order to learn how to port poplog, given the complexities of
bootstrapping involved, since most of the poplog core is implemented
in pop11, which requires a running poplog to build a new system.
The people doing the work had never previously used poplog or pop11,
let alone ported it.
For anyone interested there's information about porting
and rebuilding poplog here.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/
Aaron
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