[Gardeners] Allegro 8.0 Lispboxen

[Peter Seibel]

On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:10 AM, John Wiseman wrote:

> I tried Lispbox for OS X/PPC, ACL 8.0.
>
> I had a few more or less cosmetic issues, but I think they're
> significant:
>
> Is there some reason that the installer is an installer as opposed to
> just letting me drag a folder somewhere?

Dunno. I just followed Emacs's lead here.

> Did it explain somwhere why
> it needed me to authenticate and I missed it?

Nope. That's a consequence of some flag or another the install foo  
that I cargo culted from Emacs.

> Would it be possible at
> least to let me choose to install to somewhere other than
> /Applications?

Probably, with the appropriate hacks to the installer. Probably  
turning it into a drag-this-folder-wherever install is a better bet  
though.

> The default font in the supplied Emacs looks pretty bad in OS X[1],
> and I can't seem to change the font from the default.  Maybe a nice
> lucida sans typewriter 12 pt?

Well, some of this may get better when I next upgrade the Emacs  
sources I'm using; I just rebuilt my personal emacs the other day and  
the fonts seemed to have changed. Maybe for the better.

> And then the one that stopped me:
>
> When I pointed it at the license file I downloaded from Franz
> (~/Desktop/minted) I got the following error: "Opening output file:
> permission denied, /Applications/Lispbox/acl80_express/devel.lic"

This is due, I think to some small change Kevin made to the build  
scripts that he shouldn't have. I'm working with him on that. In the  
meantime you can go chmod /Applications/Lispbox/acl80_express to 0777  
and you should be good, I think.

-Peter

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