On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:52:20PM +0200, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > 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? > > 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/ ),
Cool! Now I know who to ask for help with Supergravity :-) > 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. My experience with maintaining debs of CL code is similar -- it's too much like hard work. There's some work in progress in cCLan CVS to autogenerate packages from simple tarballs (and, incidentally, a scheme to do useful tarballs, too) from ASDF system descriptions; while I make no claim that it's finished (or even terribly useful) in its present form, it may be worth a look (in the "many hands make light work" kind of way). Cheers, Christophe -- Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL +44 1223 510 299 http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/ (defun pling-dollar (str schar arg) (first (last +))) (make-dispatch-macro-character #\! t) (set-dispatch-macro-character #\! #\$ #'pling-dollar)
