--- Daniel Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Have the developers considered creating a standard template/skeleton
> > for user contributed packages?
> > ....
> > Is this a nutty idea?
>
> I think it's a great idea, but I don't see why it needs the CMUCL core
> developers to do it. Obviously it would be nice if they Officially
> Approved it, but that doesn't really involve any more work on their
> part than putting links on web pages.
>
> It's one of the goals towards which CLiki/ASDF/cCLan is iterating.
>
> cCLan itself is intended to be portable, but that doesn't imply that
> the packages in it necessarily need be. db-sockets, for example, is
> CMUCL/SBCL-specific and likely to remain so.
>
Thanks for the lead. CCLAN seems to be a superset of what I
wanted. I had glanced at it before, but it was a bit more inchoate
then. Is there an 'idiot's guide to using vn-cclan' [the
vendor neutral 2nd generation] available, or is this on the to-do
list? Is there a documentation format yet?
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