Robert.Coyne@CAD.CS.CMU.EDU (03/15/91)
I have a fairly complex and promising application written in CL, CLOS and CLX. It is time to graduate to a new version which will demand a much more complete environment for both developers and end-users. Required are (at least): a browser an object editor an object-hierarchy grapher (tree grapher) a portable graphics toolkit to X11 (asynchronous interaction required & support for active objects preferred) Also desired is support for object persistence. I know that all of these extensions/utilities of CL/CLOS have been discussed and are available as separate pieces or in certain combinations. In fact there seems to be an enormously confusing array of some or all of these facilities in various states of maturation. (I'll bet that I'm not the only satisfied expanded-CL user who has greater ambitions for its use but who is daunted by the task of assessing and assembling more tools into a coherent environment). Would some kind and knowledgable person(s) summarize/suggest alternative configurations of existing and available tools that would produce something close to the complete environment described above? (any combinations of commercial implementations and supported/documented research tools are acceptable - it would also be nice if the whole were as compact, portable and efficient as possible .... :-) Ok, so it appears that I don't want much, only the 'sun, moon and stars', ... but I am willing to reach a little, especially if they can be had in a package deal. Thanks, Rob Coyne
keunen@milou.nrb.be (Vincent Keunen) (03/20/91)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 19:46-EST From: Robert.Coyne@CAD.CS.CMU.EDU I have a fairly complex and promising application written in CL, CLOS and CLX. It is time to graduate to a new version which will demand a much more complete environment for both developers and end-users. ... Would some kind and knowledgable person(s) summarize/suggest alternative configurations of existing and available tools that would produce something close to the complete environment described above? (any combinations of commercial implementations and supported/documented research tools are acceptable - it would also be nice if the whole were as compact, portable and efficient as possible .... :-) And could someone also summarize what all these are for the less knowledgeable? CLX, CLUE, CLIM, YY... Thank you.