Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.14 released [stable]

[Robert Dodier]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 7:42 AM Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org> wrote:

> Greetings!  I see we've been on parallel paths.
>
> I've committed a lisp-array-alike1 to gcl_cleanup for review.

Well, commit a1de549 on master has special cases for strings and
vectors, and as it stands the problem with fill pointers has been
fixed. Unless the version of ALIKE1 on the gcl_cleanup branch
addresses some cases not covered by a1de549 (I looked at the stuff on
gcl_cleanup and the version of ALIKE1 there doesn't seem to cover any
ground not yet covered by master, but in case I'm mistaken about
that), it doesn't seem to be needed.

About #+kcl conditionalizations, I think we should drop any
KCL-specific stuff, and anything that still applies to GCL should be
changed to #+gcl.

I wonder if the work you're doing for Maxima compiled with GCL can be
committed directly to master instead of a separate branch. The work
you're doing doesn't need to be reviewed by others before being merged
into master, I'm pretty sure. I have to say I find that long-running
branches make it harder to understand what's going on, in general.

Thanks for your efforts, I appreciate it a lot, and hope this helps.

best,

Robert