Re: [Chicken-users] GUI: thoughts on practicality.

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Tony Sidaway wrote:
> > >
> > > It might be amusing to frame a GUI project as a challenge to Gambit or
> > > Bigloo programmers! :)
> >
> > I threw down the gauntlet to the Steel Bank Common Lisp crowd a number
> > of months back.  I said their Windows build was lousy, and that we were
> > a year ahead of them.  I haven't checked on them lately.  I hope I don't
> > have to eat any crow?  Be careful who you challenge, you might have to
> > live up to it.
>
> Chicken's build is, I agree, something to boast about.

I don't.  It's not foolproof enough for me to do that yet.  In 
particular, lack of binaries due to hardwired paths, and an undiagnosed 
failure on VC8 Express, are warts.  And we had the Linux RPATH issue 
recently also.  But the build *is* intended to be top notch, and it is 
actually built.  It's not just rotting away neglected, which is what the 
SBCL Windows build was doing.  The hoops you had to jump through to get 
that going were stupid.  Typical open source "I don't care about Windows 
or usability" utter crap.  I threw down the gauntlet because those kinds 
of builds disgust me.  Well, Microsoft disgusts most open source 
adherants, so touche.  There's a reason there's no quality on the 
Windows side of open source.

I hope SBCL got better on Windows.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every