Changeset 13165

Timestamp:

01/20/11 14:08:23 (13 years ago)

Author:

ehuelsmann

Message:

Update README.

File:

• trunk/abcl/README (modified) (9 diffs)

trunk/abcl/README

@@ -46 +46 @@
 which should result in output like the following
 
-    Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.19.1
-    Java 1.6.0_14 Sun Microsystems Inc.
+    Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.25.0
+    Java 1.6.0_21 Sun Microsystems Inc.
     Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
-    Low-level initialization completed in 0.9 seconds.
+    Low-level initialization completed in 0.3 seconds.
     Startup completed in 2.294 seconds.
     Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
@@ -61 +61 @@
 preferred (and most tested way) is to being to use the Ant build tool:
 
-* Use the Ant build tool for Java environments.  
+* Use the Ant build tool for Java environments.
 
 * Use the Netbeans 6.x IDE to open ABCL as a project.
@@ -72 +72 @@
 tested).  Just the JRE isn't enough, as you need the Java compiler
 ('javac') to compile the Java source of the ABCL implementation.
+
+When deploying ABCL, the JDK isn't a requirement for the installation
+site: ABCL compiles directly to byte code, avoiding the need for the
+'javac' compiler in deployment environments.
 
 
@@ -85 +89 @@
 Then simply executing
 
-    unix$  ant 
+    unix$  ant
 
 or
-    cmd$ ant.bat    
+    cmd$ ant.bat
 
 from the directory containing this README file will create an
@@ -137 +141 @@
 on Unix to start ABCL.  Note that this wrappers contain absolute
 paths, so you'll need to edit them if you move things around after the
-build. 
+build.
 
 If you're developing on ABCL, you may want to use
@@ -151 +155 @@
 This invokes javac separately for each .java file, which avoids running
 into limitations on command line length (but is a lot slower).
- 
+
 ** Building from another Lisp by hand
 
@@ -158 +162 @@
 
     CL-USER> (build-abcl:build-abcl :clean t :full t)
-    
+
 will build ABCL.  If ASDF isn't present, simply LOAD the
 'customizations.lisp' and 'build-abcl.lisp' files to achieve the same
@@ -169 +173 @@
 A lot of (renewed) energy has been spent to make ABCL a compliant
 and practically useable Common Lisp implementation.  Because of this,
-ABCL 0.19.1 now fails only 29 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI CL test
-suite.  Next to that, the fail count of the Maxima test suite has been
-reduced to only 5 - rounding errors.
-
-ABCL's CLOS does not handle on-the-fly redefinition of classes
-correctly. Quite a bit of energy has been spent in versions 0.16.0 and
-0.17.0 to improve CLOS performance. There is no support for the long
-form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION, and certain other required CLOS
-features are also missing. Enough CLOS is there to run
-ASDF2 and CL-PPCRE.
+ABCL 0.25.0 now fails only 28 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI CL test
+suite.  In addition, Maxima's test suite runs without failures now
+and ABCL's CLOS complete, with the exception of the long form of
+DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION - which is an ongoing effort.
 
 There is no MOP worth mentioning.
 
-Patches to address any of the issues mentioned above will be gladly
-accepted.
+Patches to address any of the issues mentioned above will
+be gladly accepted.
 
 Please report problems to the development mailing list:
@@ -193 +191 @@
 On behalf of all ABCL development team and contributors,
 Erik Huelsmann
-March 20, 2010
+January 20, 2011