[Gardeners] LispBox on OS X: uninstallable? intel support?

Alexis Gallagher public at alexisgallagher.com
Mon Mar 27 07:17:37 CST 2006


Hi,

I recently got SBCL running on my Intel Mac. This is mostly just a 
matter of finding the binary on Cyrus's blog 
(http://www.cyrusharmon.org/cl/blog/display/47).

But in the course of this hunt, I noticed how outdated and incomplete 
the Common Lisp Cookbook page was on installing a CL environment on OS X 
(http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/windows.html). I started writing a 
HOWTO for installing SBCL + Aquamacs + SLIME.

Then it occurred to me that this was a waste of time and that all the 
cookbook page really needs is just a link to the LispBox project.

But when I went to the lispbox project, I noticed that it delivers a 
.pkg installer instead of app bundles. I fear .pkgs, because I don't 
know how to uninstall them afterwards. So I had a few questions:
1) is there any way to uninstall the lispbox?
2) do any lispboxes work for OS X on Intel?
3) why did the OS X lispbox go with emacs instead of aquamacs? (just 
curious...please don't lynch me)

Whatever the answers, I'm guessing the number of people who are both 
running OS X on Intel and are also paranoid about pkgs is small enough 
that the world doesn't need another installation howto....

Alexis


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