Luis Oliveira says: This would require a better asdf-install, btw. Someone's working on that. :-)
I say: Please, please tell me that they are thinking of windows when they write this, and are avoid ing making assumptions about unix directory structures. And using something other than GNU tar. On 6/7/06, Luís Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Proposal: 1) Pull together a repository of common lisp utilities under > > an MIT or BSD style license (no restrictions) to try to enable the > > world of asdf-installable packages to come to depend on a single > > common library and so that newcomers will have a body of existing code > > they can exploit to save time and effort. Start by reviewing common > > libraries and functions (from Genera, PCL, Norvig's book, Graham's > > books; as well as arnesi, kmrcl, clocc, etc) and figuring out how to > > organize them into a simple namespace such as utils.lists, utils.os, > > etc. > > While I think this a very useful project, I don't see much point in > creating yet another arnesi/kmrcl/clocc. Nikodemus's suggestion of > splitting this project into multiple separate packages/systems seems > saner. > > I'm not sure I'd split anaphoric/macrology/function/cons stuff, > though. OTOH, OS stuff clearly belongs in another package (such as > cffi-unix). Arnesi's call/cc stuff would also make an interesting > package on its own, for example. > > Another interesting project would be to create a "Standard Library" > meta-package that would define a set of guidelines/requirements for and > harbour multiple libraries (ffi, sockets, utilities, regex, threads, > etc...). These requirements would include stuff like: > > * documentation > * test suites > * workingness in whatever lisps the "Standard Library" wants to > support. > * etc... > > I see many projects trying to avoid dependencies (and therefore > duplicating code). Being able to depend on the "Standard Library" would > probably make authors/maintainers not worry so much about that. Does > this make any sense at all? > > This would require a better asdf-install, btw. Someone's working on > that. :-) > > > > 2) Properly document all of these functions, potentially with > > pointers to Common Lisp Cookbook entries where they are used or other > > documentation (special syntax in the documentation strings?). > > I suggest using texinfo and pulling documentation strings the way SBCL > does for its user manual. (Or something similar.) > > -- > Luís Oliveira > luismbo (@) gmail (.) com > http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/ > > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
