There is a new version of Ready Lisp for Mac OS X available. This version is based on SBCL 1.0.24 and Aquamacs Emacs 1.6, and requires OS X Leopard 10.5. The only changes in this version are upgrades of many of the dependent packages.
What is Ready Lisp? It’s a binding together of several popular Lisp packages for OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a single application bundle which you can double-click — and find yourself in a fully configured Common Lisp REPL. It’s ideal for OS X users who want to try out Lisp with a minimum of hassle. The download is approximately 73 megabytes.
There is a GnuPG signature for this file in the same directory; append .asc to the above filename to download it. To install my public key onto your keyring, use this command:
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv 0x824715A0
Once installed, you can verify the download using the following command:
$ gpg --verify ReadyLisp.dmg.asc
For more information, see the Ready Lisp project page.
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Great, thanks for the effort.
One issue: I get an error buffer/lisp stack trace with an “Can’t locate module: :SWANK-PACKAGE-FU” error while starting Emacs. SBCL seems to work ok anyway but the error is a bit annoying anyway.
I just tried running Ready Lisp on a fresh copy of Leopard, and I’m seeing the same issue. I’ll get this fixed and issue a new release shortly.
The files seem to contain a aquamacs dmg file inside. Maybe it is not needed and the distribution could be smaller?
symlink seems broken?
Yes, I had to pull the old disk image because of a bad bug that it had. I’m uploading the replacement now.
Downloaded the 01-27 version, starting emacs now leads to ‘could not open file “/Users/pse/Programme/Ready Lisp.app/Contents/Resources/sbcl/powerpc/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core-with-slime”‘ during the startup of sbcl (in swank:start-server). I’m running Leopard on a G4 if this is any help.
Wow, you’re right, the PowerPC core file is missing. Which means that the test I ran on my own G4 machine must have picked up a core from someplace else… I will recreate the disk image with the missing core file and issue a re-release this weekend. My apologies.
Downloaded the 01-30 version this morning, starts up without troubles both on a G4 and Intel. Thanks for fixing the issue!
Great job on Ready Lisp. It should be the standard for Mac Lisp implementation.
I was wondering, however, would it be possible to include SBCL 1.0.49?