[Gbbopen-developer] portable-threads

[Gary King]

Hi Attila,

I'll try to dust off what I have and see whether or not it still fits  
the landscape...

More soon.

On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:

> dear list,
>
> i've recently checked out the repo and saw that the portable-threads
> subproject is a quite complete portable thread lib for cl and also
> looks good.
>
> unfortunately it's quite complicated to use it for projects (it stops
> loading with some asdf related continuable error; you can't do
> :depends-on :portable-threads directly because it's not a standalone
> .asd). i was wondering if you considered making it a standalone
> lightweight cross-platform threading lib?
>
> the opensource community could give you back some useful patches as
> more people start using it. i, for one, could start with a fast
> atomic-incf for sbcl... :)
>
> if you are not against the idea i could help you in doing the nifty
> details of extracting it into a standalone .asd, setting up the
> project/repo if it's to be in a different repo, possibly a
> common-lisp.net page, etc. but of course strictly by your rules and
> making it clear that it's your code with your licence, etc.
>
> also i've heard that someone could not use portable-threads in his
> LLGPL lib because the Apache license is not compatible with LLGPL.
> maybe you could use a more forgiving license in a standalone p-t lib
> if you like the idea.
>
> but i don't want to run ahead... what do you think about turning
> portable-threads into a standalone lib?
>
> -- 
>  attila
>
> PS: i know about Gary's asdf installable version but it's lagging
> behind (as the non-canonical versions always do).

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