Mac OS X Tiger and CL Implementations - Part 2
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
I commented a
few days ago on CL implementations for the (then)
upcoming Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" release. Well, Tiger came out on
Friday and it has
a lot of neat features. The day after the release of Tiger, Rainer Joswig, a longtime Mac and CL user,
posted his
list of ideas about how to make Lisp cool on the Mac, utilizing
some of the latest Tiger features. I won't repeat that list here; but,
if you are a Mac OS X CL developer, he has a lot of good ideas
that would make worthwhile projects for Mac OS X.
In my
earlier posting, I also mentioned that there were problems
building Carbon Emacs on Tiger. Well, it looks like the
AquaMacs team
have (and are about to release) a version of Carbon Emacs that works
on Tiger. I commented on AquaMacs
previously and still think it the best Emacs distribution (that I
have tried) for Mac
OS X (although it does still have a few "rough edges"). The
Mac OS X Emacs Mailing List Archives provide up-to-the-minute
updates on current progress with getting AquaMacs working on Tiger. If
you're super keen on getting something immediately, you can download
the pre-release version
here (caveat downloader, etc). Note: Unless you've downloaded
(separately) some additional LaTeX files, you'll need to comment out
the following line in the
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/site-start.el
file:
(require 'auctex-config nil t)The maintainers know about this problem and will undoubtedly correct it in the next day or two.
