On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:43:35 +0200, Ralf Mattes rm@seid-online.de wrote:
Yes - but that's incredible overkill. What problem does this actually solve. Is there _any_ change in SBCLs between in, say, Ubuntu 7.10 and the current CVS version that changes the behaviour of SBCL or fixes prominent bugs? The only features I can think of are thread and unicode support. The poroblems that usually pop up in mailing lists are almost allways related to old[1] versions of _libraries_ and the proper way to procede here would be to nagg the package maintainer ... Or - even better, learn the basics of package building on your prefered distribution and build your up-to-date local versions. I can only speak for Debian/Ubuntu here, but I maintain local versions of most of the CL libs I need for my projects and updating usually involves little more than a VC update and an 'debchange -ni' to update the package version.
And iff you feel generous you might even offer your packages to the Debian CL folks ...
Yust my 0.02 cents
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
I absolutely agree, espescially since 1.0.6 already has support for native threads and unicode. And 8.04 will be out soon anyway.