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From: Juanjo on 5 Mar 2010 10:14
Announcement of ECL
===================

ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce
an
implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI
X3J13
definition of the language.

The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C
compiler,
which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C
programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone executables from
your lisp
code and can itself be linked to your programs as a shared library.

ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris (at
least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of the Intel,
Sparc,
Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be
rather
easy.

ECL is currently hosted at Common-Lisp.net and SourceForge. The home
page of
the project is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will find
source code
releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation.

Known issues
============

- The Mingw port does not work with the stable version of the Boehm-
Weiser
garbage collector. Users will have to download a more recent version
and
build and install it in an accessible location for ECL to compile.

- The OpenBSD port does not support multithreaded builds because the
latest
stable version that runs on it does not contain all the required
functionality.

- --with-cxx is currently broken and ECL does not BUILD with a C++
compiler,
but it can still be USED in C++ programs.

Changes since last release
==========================

This release has three important focuses: performance improvements in
various
fronts (garbage collection and hash tables), extending the run-process
function
and important fixes to let ECL work better with Slime. To quote one
lisper
"this feels like a real Lisp implementation now"

See file src/CHANGELOG or browse it online

http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?view=markup

Downloading ECL: http://ecls.sf.net/download.html

Other resources: http://ecls.sf.net/resources.html
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