On Nov 22, 2019, at 16:42, Dave Cooper david.cooper@genworks.com wrote:
Thanks Mark!
I'd like to get The Bear worked into Gendl's standard set of CL engines (at least for MacOS and Linux).
Great! Please lemme know how I can help out when you get stuck.
So, in the release directory, what should I be going for: just abcl.jar ?
If you want to use a binary release, download either the “tar.gz” or “zip” archives, which contain both “abcl.jar” and “abcl-contrib.jar”.
Invoke via
java -jar abcl.jar
[1.6.0-bin]: https://abcl.org/releases/1.6.0/abcl-bin-1.6.0.tar.gz
From source, the build of ABCL creates an “abcl” or “abcl.bat” script which wraps this invocation easily. If you can deal with learning a little bit about Java tooling, you can use the ABCL-BUILD contrib to download the ‘ant’ tool which will allow you to build the source and use the resulting “abcl{,bat}” script to invoke the Bear.
[1.6.0-src]: https://abcl.org/releases/1.6.0/abcl-src-1.6.0.tar.gz
And, which Java distribution do you recommend to keep around, at least for MacOS and Linux?
All of them, but then again, I am actively developing the implementation. If you have to choose, I would use the latest AdoptJDK openjdk11 implementation.
[adoptjdk]: https://adoptopenjdk.net/