>> +1 on the project; I think it's a great idea. I think I will be >> able to help out with the project. However, the real trick is >> getting adoption and use by the public; while I think that including >> it in Lispbox will make a lot of newbees use it and thus, give the >> project a good boost, it would be great if we could somehow get the >> prolific package contributors to take advantage of this project. >> >> So if you already have a decent amount of experience in Lisp and the >> resulting accumilated set of macros and helper functions, what would >> it take for you to start using the common library instead of your >> own homebrewed solutions? >> #1 - That I could adapt and add my own generally useful utilities to the library #2 - That I had an easy way to find functionality that was already there #3 - I felt a sense of ownership in the project.
There are probably no more than a few dozen major 'connectors' in the community. If just a few popular projects switch over it could have a real impact. Some of the big or regular contributors, large-package developers or well known and active members of the community that I can think of of the top of my head... - Kevin Rosenberg (kmrcl, uffi, clsql) - Kenny Tilton (cells) - Peter Siebel (PCL & libs) - Marco Baringer (arnesi, ucw) - Pascal Costanza (closer-to-mop) - *Edi* Weitz (cl-ppcre & misc) <http://weitz.de/> I'm sure I've left folks out so please, no bruised egos! :) <http://weitz.de/> > For any library, Lisp or not, I like to see documentation, and test > cases. (And it's handy if the library does what I want to do, too! > :) > > -- Larry > > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
