Anthony Chaumas writes: > > At present, my main interest is applications, particularly dealing > with Internet. I've looked at programs like Beirc or Closure, or the > cl-ftp and cl-xmpp libraries. However, near as I can tell, none of > these projects seem to have seen much development of late (with no > application I'm aware of based on these libraries). Beirc in > particular seemed very useable, but I can't see if the project is > still alive. > > So, could someone please give me some pointers regarding the state of > the world of these projects? Is development stalled for lack of time > and contributers? Is work still being done elsewhere, or through > another project? Or is it simply lack of interest? I can't tell for > sure, let alone see how I might help improve these projects.
Closure (and I believe also Beirc) was written initially Gilbert Baumann. He has been very busy with other things for a couple of years, so he has not had time to work on those applications. They have been worked on more recently by other people, but none of them are being developed on a daily basis at this point. I for one would like to see both of them being worked on, so if you are interested, that would be a good thing. Even though the original author is not going to be around very often, I think some other people know enough to help you out, in particular with respect to the GUIs which use McCLIM. A great place to start discussing these things would be the #lisp IRC channel. Good luck. -- Robert Strandh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
