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Support: mailing list & help for CMUCL users
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CMUCL is supported by a number of mailing lists at
cons.org, running under Listar. To obtain help on the use of the
list management software, send an email with an empty subject and a
body of help (and nothing else) to
<listar@cons.org>. Please don't send subscribe
requests to the list addresses, since they won't be
seen by the mailing list software and will only annoy the subscribers.
Always use the appropriate -request address.
- <cmucl-announce at cons.org>
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is a low-volume mailing list, reserved for announcements such as new
releases, new ports, important patches or other resources closely
related to CMUCL. No discussion should happen on this list. This
mailing list will be moderated when necessary.
Send email to <cmucl-announce-request@cons.org> to be
added or removed from the list (using a subject of subscribe
or unsubscribe and an empty body) and to
<cmucl-announce-human-request@cons.org> in case the former
doesn't work.
- <cmucl-imp at cons.org>
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is a mailing list for technical discussion of implementation-specific
issues, like ports to new platforms, bug fixes, new features,
design of APIs or ports of major third-party packages to CMUCL.
Send email to <cmucl-imp-request@cons.org> to be added or
removed from the list (using a subject of subscribe or
unsubscribe and an empty body) and to
<cmucl-imp-human-request@cons.org> in case the former
didn't work.
- <cmucl-help at cons.org>
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is a mailing list to ask for help in setting up and using CMUCL.
Posters should read the CMUCL User's Manual prior to using this list. Otherwise it is open
to every question related to CMUCL. For bug reports, please try out the
latest release to see whether your problem has been fixed, and please
read this guide on How to Report
Bugs Effectively, if you haven't already done so.
Help requests related to rebuilding CMUCL and applying patches may be
sent to cmucl-imp also. Problems related to compiler
optimization are probably better reported to cmucl-imp, but
please make sure your post is about a specific situation with a proper
description.
Experienced CMUCL users are encouraged to join this list and help new
users.
Send mail to <cmucl-help-request@cons.org> to be added or
removed from the list (using a subject of subscribe or
unsubscribe and an empty body) and to
<cmucl-help-human-request@cons.org> in case the former doesn't
work.
- <cmucl-commit at cons.org>
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is a mailing list that receives notifications of commits to the CMUCL
CVS tree. This is intended primarily for developers, but may be of
interest to users who wish to follow development.
The cmucl-help and cmucl-imp mailing lists are available
over NNTP, or through a web-based browsing system, through the Gmane mail-to-news gateway, respectively as
the groups
gmane.lisp.cmucl.general and
gmane.lisp.cmucl.devel. Gmane also allows you to search the
post-2002 archives of these two lists.
To avoid spam reaching the lists, please do not post their addresses
to USENET or public web pages. You can post a link to this URL instead, or
reference the -request addresses instead.
If you want to send MIME attachments with your
message, make sure you use one of the text/* Content-Types
(for example text/plain), otherwise the mailing list software
will strip out the attachment.
Commercial support
There is no formal commercial support structure for CMUCL. However,
some of the CMUCL developers may be available on an individual basis
for consulting, for example to implement new features or help in
porting a particular application. Please email the cmucl-imp list with
details of your requirements.
Newsgroups
The USENET newsgroup comp.lang.lisp
is related to Common Lisp. You may wish to read its current FAQ, or its
older FAQ.
Bug Tracking
To report bugs, you may use Trac. Due to spam,
you will need to get a login to be able to submit bugs. Sorry
about that. Alternatively, please feel free to submit bug reports
to the mailing lists. However, bug reports won't get lost if you
submit them to Trac.
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