EncyCMUCLopedia
Revision History

For the June 17, 2001 version of the EncyCMUCLopedia

Paolo Amoroso (editor)
amoroso@mclink.it

The EncyCMUCLopedia is an extensive collection of CMU Common Lisp documentation. The latest distribution is available at http://cvs2.cons.org:8000/cmucl/doc/EncyCMUCLopedia/.

This document is the revision history of the EncyCMUCLopedia. Minor changes such as style improvements, fixed typos or updated URLs are not listed.

June 17, 2001

CMUCL User's Manual (previously titled CMU Common Lisp User's Manual): updated distribution information, more user-oriented Introduction section (historical information and credits moved to the end of the section), removed obsolete information on Mach and most references to the IBM RT, and other minor formatting changes.
Design of the Common Lisp controller: added descriptions of the install-defsystem, remove-defsystem and make-user-image commands, with clarifications on which users should run which commands.

Instance creation optimization: removed by request of the author because it contained potentially misleading suggestions about the use of undocumented PCL features.

CMU CL Compilation howto: removed some comments in square brackets about loading certain intermediate files. Added a note on the README file mentioned in the howto to the howto's entry in the EncyCMUCLopedia.
CMU CL compilation steps: full text included (earlier versions of the EncyCMUCLopedia provided only a link to the online copy of the document).
CMU Common Lisp configuration: added reference to the small core in the FILES section.
CMU Common Lisp on Linux: new section on CORBA, updated references and other minor fixes.
Glibc2 support in the Debian Linux port: rewritten because glibc support is now standard. Updated the document's index entry accordingly.
Notes on using ILISP: updated ILISP site URL.

Added Installing CMU CL 18c on Red Hat Linux 7.0 to the Using CMU Common Lisp reading path.
New section Distributed and Network Programming.
Renamed section Build Process to Build Process and Porting.
Wherever possible, links to the latest online versions of documents or to additional material have been added. Check the description of document entries in section Document Selection and Organization.
Changed to "Motif Toolkit interface" some "CLM" occurrences that actually referred to the CMU CL implementation of CLM, not to GMD's original CLM.

CMU Common Lisp on Linux (previously titled Lisp on Linux HOWTO): mainly updated info about software mentioned in the document such as the latest CMU CL 2.4.x distribution for Debian and ILISP; added discussion of logical pathnames.
Design of CMU Common Lisp: updated the type codes (sections 37.6 and 37.7) and the description of the array object (section 37.9).

As a convenience to users who are just curious about what material is included with the EncyCMUCLopedia, the index is now separately available at the official distribution site.
Updated the Using CMU Common Lisp reading path to mention the PCL documents.
Updated the Contributing to the development of CMU Common Lisp reading path to mention SBCL.
Added section CLOS and PCL under User Documentation.
Clarified interrupt safety issues of the CMU CL code base in the entry for Multi-Processing.

First public release.