Comment 9 for bug 1211414

On 08/13/2013 08:33 AM, Stas Boukarev wrote:
> Presumably the user is conscious when downloading one or the other.
>
Well, in my experience it is best not to make assumptions about others
and in particular not about new ignorant users.

Here is what I did. I went to the SBCL page
http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html. The page provides a link to
download, "the most recent version of SBCL is 1.1.10..." Initially I
used the git command in that first section to download the files.

I just now downloaded the tar file sbcl-1.1.10-source.tar.bz2. The name
clearly states it 'source." And, as has been pointed out I can download
a binary version for Linux as well. I just tried that as well.

In retrospect I suppose the development version is released as source
files only. But it was not explicit and I violated my on experience by
making an assumption. I assumed the binaries for the version would be
included in the download from SourceForge.

I guess I'll try to remove the installation I have done and start from
scratch. I've probably mucked it up a bit. Uninstalling can be interesting

BTW Thanks again for the help.

John