[Gardeners] lisp projects

Sun Dec 18 21:10:15 CST 2005

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 22:07, root wrote:
> I'm the lead developer on Axiom, a very large computer algebra system
> mostly implemented in common lisp.
> 
> Axiom has two parts which are not common lisp, a documentation browser
> and a graphics subsystem. We need to make both of these portable and
> have pursued multiple paths. 

The documentation browser could be a local web server, written in Lisp, included in your app that serves up web pages.  You can shell out from within Lisp to call up the default installed browser to start itself up and load a page you tell it to.  Subsequent requests just have the current running browser open the page.

There IS a free X11 environment for OSX and also for Windows (does not require cygwin as far as I know, runs in a window).  Whether you want to force folks to install yet another piece for the application is a good question though.  

--Patrick