From 09bd43b9057d3e73358fff28fd4214ac57eb2030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ram <ram> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 01:35:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for 15e. --- general-info/net-README.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt index 283e3f5d8..cf6b1222d 100644 --- a/general-info/net-README.txt +++ b/general-info/net-README.txt @@ -3,10 +3,16 @@ and executables are freely available via anonymous FTP; this software is "as is", and has no warranty of any kind. CMU and the authors assume no responsibility for the consequences of any use of this software. -This is a general beta release, meaning that anyone can FTP it, but we won't be -very sympathetic about catastrophes resulting from your dependence on CMU CL. -This release mostly fixes bugs in the previous release, and if all goes well, -we will announce a later default release of this system +15e will probably be the last version 15 release, and is thus the most stable +system you're going to see for a while. We're reluctant to call it a +"default" release because some things are stably broken: + -- There still isn't any good stack overflow detection. Probably stack + overflow detection won't appear until the C code rewrite associated with + generational GC comes out (version 17 or later.) + -- The Alien/foreign function call mechanism is fairly broken. It doesn't + work at all in interpreted code, and DEF-C-ROUTINE doesn't work properly + for many argument type signatures. We've redesigned and reimplemented + our foreign interface for version 16. The CMU Common Lisp project's goal is to develop a high quality public domain system, so we want your bug reports, bug fixes and enhancements. However, @@ -39,8 +45,8 @@ FTP compressed tar archives in binary mode. To extract, "cd" to the directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type: uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - . -The latest SunOS Sparc release is: - -rw-r--r-- 1 ram 9248115 Feb 2 17:13 15d-sun4c_41.tar.Z +As of 2/26/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is: + 15e-sun4c_41.tar.Z (9.3 meg) The resulting tree is 23 megabytes. For installation directions, see the section "site initialization" in README file at the root of the tree. @@ -99,9 +105,8 @@ also makes use of several imported packages: PCL, CLX and XP. Although these packages are copyrighted, they may be freely distributed without any licensing agreement or fee. -Also in /afs/cs/project/clisp/release: --rw-r--r-- 1 ram 3626581 Feb 2 16:59 15d-source.tar.Z - Image of all ".lisp" source files used to build version 15d. +/afs/cs/project/clisp/release/15e-source.tar.Z (3.6 meg) is an image of all +the ".lisp" source files used to build version 15e. Totally machine-independent compiler code: /afs/cs/project/clisp/src/beta/compiler/*.lisp -- GitLab