Thanks Daniel, the workaround lets me run the McCLIM demos just fine. By the way, I have a McCLIM loading issue also with CLISP. Is it related? Is the venerable CLISP even supposed to run current McCLIM? [1]> (ql:quickload :clim-examples) To load "clim-examples": Load 1 ASDF system: clim-examples ; Loading "clim-examples" .................................................. [package cluffer-standard-buffer] *** - DEFPACKAGE CLUFFER-STANDARD-BUFFER: unknown option :LOCAL-NICKNAMES The following restarts are available: RETRY :R1 Retry compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cluffer-standard-buffer" "packages">. ACCEPT :R2 Continue, treating compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cluffer-standard-buffer" "packages"> as having been successful. RETRY :R3 Retry ASDF operation. CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY :R4 Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration. ABORT :R5 Give up on "clim-examples" REGISTER-LOCAL-PROJECTS :R6 Register local projects and try again. ABORT :R7 Abort main loop Break 1 [2]> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM Daniel Kochmański <daniel@turtleware.eu> wrote:
Hey Paolo,
coincidentally I've partially addressed this issue yesterday evening.
It is an old ECL bug. I've added workaround to McCLIM and unit tests to ECL:
https://codeberg.org/McCLIM/McCLIM/commit/cfe5dc86073e2d3057e19cce140e6bb664...
https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/blob/develop/src/tests/norma...
with the quick workaround from the first link I didn't encounter any other issues with running McCLIM.
Best regards, Daniel
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