19:02:37yitziThat's true. ECL or CLISP would be especially nice. SBCL is booted off of one of them in most packages.
19:03:41Bikedo you know what exactly we do that's sbcl-dependent? i know we've used the scraper with sbcl just about forever, but its basic tasks seem portable enough
19:07:19yitziNothing specific. There are some conditional stuff for SBCL that just needs the equivalent for other implementations. We clone ASDF for ourselves but aren't careful to make the booting impl not see that. It breaks when booting with ECL since they use a modified ABCL.
19:19:59Bikeit's more blue-sky, but if we keep up with the VM stuff, i'm hoping it might at some point be possible to produce bytecode in sbcl/whatever, which we then load into the clsap c++ program, and that can be our build process. but there are plenty of intermediate steps that would need doing there.
3:37:15consolersso i hit the llvm orc bits. if i use gentoo it'll be 210MB and over 6 hours of compilation with OOM problems, i could download a release amd64 tarball thats just half a gig
3:37:47consolersgentoo is already dropping packages because they dont compile with clang 16
3:38:30consolersmaybe shelf life for 14 is not going be long. i alrady had 7,10,11,13 locally