Re: clisp support [Re: Pushed ASDF 3.1.7.8: fixes for CLISP, etc.]

• Robert Goldman ectbyqzna@fvsg.arg [2016-09-01 12:34:11 -0500]:

Even worse, AFAICT clisp does not make its version number available to the lisp context.

CLISP, like all the other implementations striving for ANSI CL compliance, exports `lisp-implementation-version' (http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_lisp_i.htm).

However, testing version numbers is not the best way to achieve cross-release compatibility; it is much better to test for specific behavior.

There's a SYSTEM::VERSION, but:

[2]> (system::version) (20080430)

This is an internal function, the version of the byte code.

I'm not sure what to do about this, since clisp seems to have lost the ability to make releases.

We had a GSoC project to make a release; alas, the student did not complete the project. We still hope that the release will happen this year.