[Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 2:09 PM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 1:37 PM David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it
>> regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory
>> calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found
>> some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms
>> and I thought I'd check to see if there was a new release up before I said
>> anything. Then I noticed that there have been no updates in five years.
>>
>> Now Larceny has never had a very high release cadence, but five years
>> does seem like rather a long time. And the Github statistics also show
>> little-to-no activity for most of that same time. So is Larceny dead?
>> Abandoned?
>>
>> I do notice that there are several forks, but are any of these a
>> successor project? Do I need to start porting my personal tool kit?...Just
>> so many questions...
>>
>> david
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Also, Dr Clinger is probably enjoying his retirement.  Pnkfelix seems to be
immersed in Rust these days.  I know there's another person (besides Lars
Hansen) who used to be a part of Clinger's team but whose name is escaping
me at the moment.

Lynn
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