A new version of the EncyCMUCLopedia (Mar 29, 2001) is now available. I
include below the README file, which explains what the EncyCMUCLopedia is
and provides instructions for getting and installing it, and the list of
changes since the previous version (Dec 24, 1999).
Paolo
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EncyCMUCLopedia
March 29, 2001
The EncyCMUCLopedia is an extensive collection of documents concerning CMU
Common Lisp (CMU CL):
http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/cons.org/
CMU CL is a free, high-quality ANSI Common Lisp system for Unix
workstations originally developed at the School of Computer Science of
Carnegie Mellon University.
The EncyCMUCLopedia packages in a single collection most of the existing
documentation on CMU CL. It also comes with an index, a sort of annotated
bibliography with comments and links to the actual documents.
The distribution of the EncyCMUCLopedia is available at:
http://cvs2.cons.org:8000/cmucl/doc/EncyCMUCLopedia/
and consists of a compressed archive whose name has the following
structure:
encycmuclopedia-yyyymmdd[d].tar.gz
encycmuclopedia-yyyymmdd[d].tar.bz2
where the date `yyyymmdd' provides version information and the optional `d'
character flags draft releases. The version with the `bz2' extension was
processed with the more space efficient bzip2 file compressor (see
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/).
To install the EncyCMUCLopedia you need about 10MB of disk space. Just
extract the compressed archive in a suitable directory such as
/usr/local/lib/cmucl. Then open file index.html in doc, the top-level
directory of the distribution, with any Web browser. See the revision
history--there's a link at the top of the index--for a list of changes
since earlier versions. Also Check the index for copyright and licensing
information.
If you are just curious about what material is included in the
EncyCMUCLopedia, you may download only the index, which is separately
available as:
encycmucl-idx-yyyymmdd[d].tar.gz
encycmucl-idx-yyyymmdd[d].tar.bz2
at the above mentioned site. Note, however, that you have to download the
full distribution if you want to access the actual documents referenced in
the index.
Have (de)fun
Paolo Amoroso
<·······@mclink.it>
Milano, Italy
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---- Changes since the previous version ----------------------------------
New documents
* CMU CL 18c release notes
* CMU CL PowerPC Port Notes
* Comments on some PCL benchmarks
* CORBA, GNOME, CMUCL, and other macabre tales
* CORBA in five minutes
* Design of the Common Lisp controller
* Experience with the performance of PCL
* Installing CMU CL 18c on Red Hat Linux 7.0
* Notes on Global Optimization
* Notes on the Implementation of the Compiler
* Outline of the steps for porting CMU CL to Win32
* Possible origin of the impressions on PCL's performance
Updated documents
* CMU CL Compilation howto: removed some comments in square brackets
about loading certain intermediate files. Added a note on the
README file mentioned in the howto to the howto's entry in the
EncyCMUCLopedia.
* CMU CL compilation steps: full text included (earlier versions of
the EncyCMUCLopedia provided only a link to the online copy of the
document).
* CMU Common Lisp configuration: added reference to the small core
in the FILES section.
* CMU Common Lisp on Linux: new section on CORBA, updated references
and other minor fixes.
* Glibc2 support in the Debian Linux port: rewritten because glibc
support is now standard. Updated the document's index entry
accordingly.
* Notes on using ILISP: updated ILISP site URL.
Miscellaneous changes
* Added Installing CMU CL 18c on Red Hat Linux 7.0 to the Using CMU
Common Lisp reading path.
* New section Distributed and Network Programming.
* Renamed section Build Process to Build Process and Porting.
* Wherever possible, links to the latest online versions of
documents or to additional material have been added. Check the
description of document entries in section Document Selection and
Organization.
* Changed to "Motif Toolkit interface" some "CLM" occurrences that
actually referred to the CMU CL implementation of CLM, not to
GMD's original CLM.
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