On Apr 17, 2012, at 00:59 , Faré wrote:
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Also, in what package does new Symbol(charset) create a symbol? Is it a gensym, the current package (which is it?), keyword? For my purposes, I need a keyword, but conversion is easy; however, I need to know. (And yes, I'm too lazy to learn how to build my own abcl to test it at that time; thanks for armedly bearing with me.)
[SYS:AVAILABLE-ENCODINGS now returns symbols in the KEYWORD package][r13918], which I think makes much more sense for everyone, as it allows an easier comparison with something one would actually pass as an :EXTERNAL-FORMAT.
[r13918] http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13918
If one has the Java JDK and Ant installed, building ABCL should be as simple as:
cmd$ ant
from the ABCL root directory, but I understand that the time cost is not negligible for busy developers, which is why I would like to get more release engineering resources to push more ABCL maintenance releases.
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