On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Dave Cooper david.cooper@genworks.com wrote:

CCL 1.9

The second failure just looks like the extra space after the "ok 1" as we were seeing before. Perhaps this is also a CCL issue? Can anyone from Clozure comment on this?

As I mentioned before, it's a CCL bug. I filed http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/ticket/1110

Also, I think I confirmed that CCL's ccl:run-program on Windows really does need the "cmd /c " prepended to be able to run a normal program. Currently the uiop:run-program is doing

(cons "cmd" (strcat "/c " command))

for commands given as a single string, but it does not prepend anything for commands given as a list. There was previous opinion that the list form of the command should not automatically get the ("cmd" "c/") prepended. But from what I can tell, the user will always have to do

(uiop:run-program (append '("cmd" "/c") command)

if user wants to give command as a list. If that's the case, then for consistent interface of uiop:run-program across different Lisps, shouldn't uiop:run-program go ahead and do that appending by default?

I believe it might be a matter of searching %PATH% or not. It's really better to have an interface that doesn't call CMD when you don't want it called. The price to pay may then be to have to specify a full path for the target command. Note that uiop:run-program already accepts a :force-shell t argument for people who want CMD /C to be forced. (PS: definitely not tested under Windows.)

SBCL

Sorry, I'm not running SBCL on Windows at the moment. Anyone? Get with me if you can use some guidance getting the ASDF test scripts running.

Last I tried, it was just a matter of expanding the zip file and adding sbcl to your PATH and/or exporting SBCL_HOME. I think I was using a trivial .BAT file that did that for me.

ABCL, ECL, CLISP, GCL (who am I forgetting?)

Anyone running these on Windows and willing to run some ASDF testing scripts (probably through cygwin)? Get with me if you want some guidance and/or moral support.

CLISP and ABCL should be relatively easy to install. ECL, I don't remember succeeding, but I might not have tried very hard. I recommend you forget GCL for now (if not forever).

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