CMUCL 20b released

[Raymond Toy]

We are pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 20b.

The key changes in this release are:

o www.cmucl.org is a mirror of the CMUCL website at www.cons.org/cmucl.
(Thanks to Carl for recovering that domain.)

o the unicode build has much faster streams, especially for utf8.

o support for localization, including CMUCL messages (but translations
are not done, except for piglatin, for fun)

o executable images for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris

o support for static arrays that are not moved by gc, but are gc'ed when
not referenced

o asdf2 and mk-defsys are included

There have also been quite a few other changes and bug fixes; we refer
the interested reader to the release notes at

http://www.cmucl.org/news/release-20b.txt

We hope you find this release useful.

[Raymond Toy]

On 9/29/10 4:25 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 20b.
>
> The key changes in this release are:
>

Forgot to mention that this will be the last release of CMUCL that
supports 8-bit characters. All future releases will be Unicode only.

If you require 8-bit, non-unicode, support, let us know. But try the
unicode version too. If there encounter problems with unicode, let us
know too!

Ray

[Antony]

One thing I am curious about is what is your incentive for maintaining
cmucl.
It does not support multi-threading. I guess that is not important for
your use?
When I first started fooling around with CL I think I used cmucl. At
that point cmucl and clisp were the only non-commercial ones if I
remember right.
Good to hear one more CL with built in unicode support.

-Antony