Re: [Gcl-devel] HEAD and GBC on Windows.

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm. 
> 
> | Thanks!  I had to revert the append however as it appears to 
> | be invalid lisp (unless I'm missing something as is always 
> | quite likely!) and broke the unix build.  We need also to 
> | synchronize here with CVS head whatever we finally settle on.
> 
> ...
> 
> | I'm not sure how you got the old version working.  Please let 
> | me know if I've broken things for you by accident.
> | 
> | As for the device, I'll try a fix shortly.
> 
> Sorry about that.  I suppose the differing +/-winnt branches led to code
> which was valid here but not on the Eastern seaboard of the North
> American continent under Linux.
> 
> In any event, your changes over the weekend (including the device
> related ones) worked this morning on Windows thank you.
> 

Great!  So we can close the savannah bug, unless you feel we've done
something to cause the xmaxima issue Vadim is reporting.  Are these
unrelated?  

> | Here's a little explanation of this admittedly cryptic piece of
> | code -- perhaps we should decide as a project to eschew such
> | forms for the sake of legibility:
> 
> It would help, but you could equally choose to eschew Lisp maintainers
> such as your's truly who can't read Lisp - besides, why should the Lisp
> code in our source tree be treated more rigourously than the C code!
> 

Indeed!!! This has provided me with several hours of chuckles already
today!

Take care,

> More problems for your most congenial consideration sent separately.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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