From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 19 02:14:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA26210 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA26204 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id CAA29438; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:14:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611191014.CAA29438@relay.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:14:34 -0800 From: obrien@NUXI.com (David E. O'Brien) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in large collection of Lisp/Scheme implementations? References: <199611190957.KAA29674@knight.cons.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1-PL0 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: <199611190957.KAA29674@knight.cons.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Nov 19, 1996 10:57:32 +0100 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Martin Cracauer writes: > I have been maintaining almost every free Lisp and Scheme system on my > NetBSD/i386 machine for several years now. > > I'm moving my work to FreeBSD and I wonder if there is interest that I > take the extra effort and make proper FreeBSD ports/packages of all > these. I'd say so -- especially for students. You never know who needs a specific Lisp implimentation. For instance, I have a friend at UCD that I installed FreeBSD so they would work at home rather than the over crowded (and SLOW) undergrad lab. They had a project to do in Lisp, and Clisp was what was installed on the lab machines. FBSD only has GCL (GNU Common Lisp) as a port. It would have been nice to have also had Clisp, especially since each Lisp system seems to be a unique dialect. -- -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)