Mac OS X Tiger and CL Implementations
Thursday, April 28, 2005
With Apple's newest Mac OS X release (named "Tiger") due out tomorrow (see here for an excellent overview), I decided to check out what "breakage" I might encounter with the various CL implementations that I use:
- Allegro CL: Will need a patch - this is easier to apply prior to updating to Tiger.
- LispWorks: According to Dave Fox, "LispWorks will of course support the forthcoming Tiger release", but it is not clear whether this will be with the current release, a patch or a new release.
- OpenMCL: Should work ok with the current 0.14.3 release but Gary Byers will be coming out with a 0.14.4 release shortly after Tiger is released (via lemonodor).
- SBCL: Support for running on Tiger is in the latest 0.9.0 release.
The biggest headache for Lisp developers might be the problems that different developers have had building Carbon Emacs on Tiger (see here, here, here). However, (as of today), it looks like a patch for Emacs on Tiger is available (talk about 11th hour fixes!!).
