[e-lang] E-on-Common-Lisp status (was Re: [Bug #125664] meta.context() exposes global state)

[Kevin Reid]

On Dec 19, 2004, at 21:08, Mark Miller wrote:

> How's E-on-CL going?

At the moment, I'm working on (Const|Flex|RO)Set.

A preferably-before-release todo list I wrote somewhat earlier, with 
current situations:


   * Post-mortem finalization for weak references.

Not absolutely required. I need thread-and-reentrancy-safe vat message 
queues before I can implement this.


   * A startup script equivalent to 'rune' for E-on-Java.

This is a two-part problem. The first is a shell script which can 
launch one's choice of CL implementations and tell it to load E-on-CL; 
this is straightforward.

The second is the internal startup code, which does argument 
parsing/authorization/REPL/etc. I'm currently trying to use the 
existing E code for this purpose. I suspect this may not work, but if 
it does it'll remove a rather complex thing from what I need to 
reimplement.


   * Parameterizing the now-hardcoded paths, so it'll run on other 
people's systems without excessive fiddling.

Half-done. E-on-CL's own library paths are now relative to the 
installation location, but it also borrows emakers from one's E-on-Java 
installation, and this is not yet handled automatically. Some ways to 
handle this:

     * have an analogue to eprops.txt which includes 'What is your 
Java-E e.home?'
     * rune --src.e 'print(interp.getProps()["e.home"])'
     * perl -ne 'print $1 and last if /^EHOME=(.*)$/' `which rune`


   * Nontrivial IO interfaces.

I have not yet done anything for this.


> Btw, I am working on trying to fix the licensing problem.

Great.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>