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16:56:11
Bike
that said, in the normal build i don't think reloading eclector should be a problem. it might get weird with the cst build.
16:56:30
drmeister
Our eclector is hardwired to an older version - for no particular reason other than to avoid surprise.
16:58:43
drmeister
We can upgrade as well. If we are on the wrong side of eclector improvements then we should upgrade - no?
16:59:41
Shinmera
sure, but that's just dodging a bullet on the battlefield. It won't make it safe yet.
17:00:55
drmeister
On a completely different track - I loooove Common Lisp - netcdf is giving up its secrets through this cl-netcdf interface.
17:02:20
drmeister
(multiple-value-list (netcdf::nc-inq *n*)) --> (5 8 6 -1) . Those are these... https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/group__datasets.html#ga555f117e74e9c4eed0d4423fedd27bfb
17:03:05
drmeister
#dimensions, #variables, #global attributes and the ID for the unlimited dimension (whatever that is).
17:05:49
drmeister
I've got a joint jupyterlab/slime session going on and I can interactively and safely mess around with the netcdf cffi interface.
17:06:44
drmeister
I have to be careful of course - I could blow things up with a bad pointer - but with reasonable care it's really neat.
17:09:55
drmeister
The cl-netcdf library has error messages that are written in French. Those eleven years of French lessons in the Canadian educational system - don't fail me now!
17:16:17
Selwyn`
Is it advisable to use externals-clasp LLVM over system LLVM? I am currently able to build Clasp but am having some trouble playing around with the various clbind demos.
17:36:52
drmeister
Selwyn`: No - package manager installed llvm is what is meant to be used with Clasp right now.
17:37:19
drmeister
externals-clasp is a holdover from the days where we were using bleeding edge llvm technology.
20:03:25
kpoeck
Here is the description how: https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/wiki/How-to-load-staple-server-in-clasp
20:04:50
kpoeck
I know that I have pending a pull request to hunchentoot and a clone of plump until the clasp-bug is fixed
20:09:11
drmeister
Ah - well - I may forget. But tonight I have a 2.5 hour class and a phone conference in about 50 min.
20:09:55
drmeister
But I'd like to get staple/staple-server online this weekend because we are having our first Cando Hackathon one week from tomorrow.
20:10:20
drmeister
Even if our documentation is woefully inadequate - staple/staple-server will give us a framework to improve.
20:12:03
drmeister
So - no - I won't forget - I've been bringing up staple/staple-server over the last couple of months because I wanted it to be ready when this time came.
20:13:14
drmeister
This will be a small affair - we have five students visiting from Rutgers University and another half dozen from Temple University.