Re: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>]Re:GCLgetting slushy ...

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks as always, Mike!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> 3. It takes GCL even further away from LGPL.
> 

This reminds me of something we should probably take care of before
2.6.2.

Right now our banner says

GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Fri Feb 20 16:31:57 UTC 2004
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Modifications of this banner must retain notice of a compatible license
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

We should probably instead default to

GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Fri Feb 20 16:31:57 UTC 2004
GCL source licensed under GNU Library General Public License
This binary licensed under the GPL due to the inclusion of
the following external GPL'ed features: unexec, libbfd, readline
Modifications of this banner must retain notice of a compatible license
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

This list could be generated from elements in the *features* list put
in at compile time depending on the selected options.  

Thoughts, (but not flames :-)) most appreciated.

Take care,


> 
> |  Will a modified windows binary be required for such
> | confirmation?
> 
> Gordon, if you would like a new binary, let me know.  I would also be
> interested in hearing about your emacs setup for running GCL.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: address@hidden
> | [mailto:address@hidden
> | Behalf Of Camm Maguire
> | Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2004 4:12 AM
> | To: Mike Thomas
> | Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> | Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak"
> | <address@hidden>]Re:GCLgetting slushy ...
> |
> |
> |
> | Take care,
> |
> | "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> |
> | > Hi again.
> | >
> | > Looking further into this, I see that at least part of the problem which
> | > Gordon is reporting is caused by the fact that the stdio
> | handles passed to
> | > GCL at start up are set to text mode before default file
> | handling is set to
> | > binary in main.c.  The fix is simple and in both CVS branches now.
> | >
> | > Cheers
> | >
> | > Mike Thomas.
> | >
> | >
> | > | -----Original Message-----
> | > | From: address@hidden
> | > | [mailto:address@hidden
> | > | Behalf Of Mike Thomas
> | > | Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 9:26 AM
> | > | To: Camm Maguire
> | > | Cc: address@hidden
> | > | Subject: RE: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>]
> | > | Re:GCLgetting slushy ...
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | Hi there.
> | > |
> | > | >From Camm:
> | > |
> | > | | Hi Mike!
> | > | |
> | > | | ==================================================================
> | > | | ===========
> | > | | From: "Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>
> | > | |
> | > | | Thanks, Camm.
> | > | |
> | > | | The previously mentioned problem of ^M characters appearing when
> | > | | gcl is used within Emacs under Windoze would be a good thing to fix
> | > | | if it isn't too hard.
> | > | | ==================================================================
> | > | | ===========
> | > | |
> | > | | When you have a chance, could you please confirm that this has been
> | > | | addressed by the recent readline changes?
> | > |
> | > | The Windows build doesn't use readline so I doubt it.
> | > |
> | > | I don't know how to use GCL from inside emacs - I always run them
> | > | separately.  If someone can tell me some easy steps to achieve
> | > | that I'll try
> | > | and look into it.
> | > |
> | > | I have considered changing GCL to never write CR characters
> | but it is a
> | > | subtle problem depending on the circumstances and I haven't yet fully
> | > | understood what happens with line endings in the various Common
> | > | Lisp format
> | > | and print functions.  Nor do I know what the ramifications
> | vis-a-vis the
> | > | ANSI specification might be.
> | > |
> | > | In principle, it is probably statistically valid to change
> | GCL so that it
> | > | reads the various kinds of line ending properly, but only ever
> | > | outputs Unix
> | > | style LF line endings because on modern Windows systems Notepad
> | > | is the only
> | > | text processing program I am aware of which does not understand them.
> | > |
> | > | The approach I favour is to have a global variable and a
> | setting function
> | > | which optionally turns CR output on and off.
> | > |
> | > | Cheers
> | > |
> | > | Mike Thomas
> | > |
> | > |
> | > |
> | > |
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> | >
> | >
> | >
> |
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> | Camm Maguire                                                address@hidden
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