From: Ken Tilton
Subject: Tough Q: Anyone running the Linux AllegroCL IDE on Sun OS?
Date:
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How Franz managed to port the IDE to Linux and not Unix is a curiosity,
but whaddoIknow. I am told Sun OS has a Linux emuation mode... anyway,
anyone got that combo (SunOS + AclIDE) cooking?
kt
On Jul 1, 9:21 pm, Ken Tilton <···········@optonline.net> wrote:
> How Franz managed to port the IDE to Linux and not Unix is a curiosity,
> but whaddoIknow. I am told Sun OS has a Linux emuation mode... anyway,
> anyone got that combo (SunOS + AclIDE) cooking?
>
> kt
There is actually an ACL for Solaris - see the Product Page for ACL -
http://www.franz.com/products/allegrocl/
I run Solaris on x86-64 and a while back enquired from Franz about
pricing. They consider the Solaris x86-64 version an Enterprise
Edition (since it runs on a 64-bit platform) and was way out of my
budget. The 32-bit Solaris version of ACL only runs on Solaris for
Sparc (if the product page is to be believed).
Solaris has something called Zones which is a virtualization mechanism
for running multiple Solarii - Sun does not support Linux in this mode
*yet* for Solaris 10 - to do this, you need Solaris 11 (which is being
incubated at www.opensolaris.org) and use BrandZ - see
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/install/;jsessionid=B42B3CCFBF1C07524131F9BFE73A0900
I run Solaris 11 (you can download from Sun as Solaris Express
Developer Edition), which, although I haven't tried, will enable you
run Linux in Zones.
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IN summary, I because of ACL's Solaris pricing, I use SBCL on Solaris.
You can try ACL Linux by running it in BrandZ on Solaris 11.
HTH
Joubert
On Jul 2, 3:21 am, Ken Tilton <···········@optonline.net> wrote:
> How Franz managed to port the IDE to Linux and not Unix is a curiosity,
> but whaddoIknow. I am told Sun OS has a Linux emuation mode... anyway,
> anyone got that combo (SunOS + AclIDE) cooking?
Nope, but I was sort of underwhelmed by the IDE. It behaves like a
windows MDI application, which may be okay depending on what you're
doing, but if you're in a unix environment whose work flows depend on
mixing windows from different applications, it's not so pleasant.
However, I sincerely doubt that there's anything Linux-specific in the
IDE code, just that it uses Gtk, which is a part of most Linux
distributions. You could get it on Solaris pretty easily by
installing the GTK binary package. Have you asked Franz for the IDE
source and/or to compile it for Solaris?