diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt index cf6b1222ddf4878a8ad94224fe09dce54774c93b..078bf6ce4fa733d45248fa1453df78b6d389be9b 100644 --- a/general-info/net-README.txt +++ b/general-info/net-README.txt @@ -1,18 +1,8 @@ -CMU Common Lisp is a public domain implementation of Common Lisp. Both sources -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. - -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. +CMU Common Lisp is a public domain implementation of Common Lisp. Both +sources 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. See +doc/release-notes.txt for a description of the state of the release you have. 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, @@ -77,7 +67,8 @@ To run CMU CL, place bin/ in PATH and setenv CMUCLLIB to point to lib/. The file lib/site-init.lisp contains site-specific initialization, such as setting of the site name. Any site-specific initialization should be placed in this file; this file can be compiled. See bin/sample-wrapper for a shell script -template that sets up environment variables and then runs CMU CL. +template that sets up environment variables and then runs CMU CL. You may +want to have your EMACS maintainer place doc/cmu-user.info in the info root. TMPFS NOTE: