> I realise that posting a wish list for free software is
> presumptuous, but here goes anyway...
>
> Have the developers considered creating a standard template/skeleton
> for user contributed packages?
(...)
> I'm asking this because I have some things that others might want, like
> higher level sockets, SSL, an async dns library, etc, but no real easy
> way to distribute. And I'm sure that others in a similar situation
> have stuff I might want. The things in the CMUCL ports collection are
> scattered all around the net, with few docs, and little
> standardisation.
Yes, that would be quite a terrific idea. A few days ago, I released my
CMUCL-based tools with which I do exceptional group theory for
supergravity to the public (->
http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf/lambdatensor/ ), and indeed,
packaging those things was quite a considerable amount of work.
Basically, I ripped the cl-odcl package apart to see what to place where
and built my package along these lines. (Still having a bad feeling in the
stomach about not having gotten everything right at the first try.)
But having some easy-to-use skeleton (perhaps generated by a tool like
h2xs for perl) would be quite nice.
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