[6272] in Release_7.7_team
Re: MIT Scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sun Mar 8 05:44:30 2009
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From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Making an mit-scheme package that works for current Ubuntu was
non-trivial, but easier than I expected. The hardest part was waiting 25
minutes for each failed build attempt.
I've filed LP #339449 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339449). This is
based on the latest version of mit-scheme in Debian, but with Ubuntu's
patches still applied.
One of the MOTU Release Team members said on IRC that he didn't expect
it would be too hard to get a feature freeze exception, given that this
is not technically a new release of mit-scheme, and you there's no
chance of regressions, since the package doesn't work to begin with.
I suspect that, if we're lucky, this could hit intrepid-backports some
time before the end of April, but we'll have to see how the process moves.
- Evan
Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's at least one MIT subject that explicitly prefers MIT Scheme to
> DrScheme, so it's worth some (but not excessive) effort to make this work
> on Athena 10.
>
> Alex
>
