On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:17:20AM -0500, Programmer wrote: > > There don't seem to be any Common Lisp libraries available as > > packages. I'd be interested in packaging the most common and mature > > Common Lisp libraries, but I'm not certain who I'd discuss this with. > > > > I'd appreciate any help with getting started contributing to OpenBSD. > > Dear Programmer, > > I am not going to tell you what to do, but if I had enough free time > to consider such projects, I would go and ask if Quicklisp project > needs some help from me (in case you do not know, it is a package > installer for Common Lisp). > > https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ > > http://blog.quicklisp.org/2018/10/october-2018-quicklisp-dist-update-now.html > > Zach Beane is the author (it seems) and is doing enormous job. It > looks like in best case you would be replicating his work, which, with > all due respect to OpenBSD, might get ignored if you cannot keep up > with updating ports at his speed. I, for one example, would rather > stick with quicklisp, because it is going to work everywhere when CL > is installed (well, mostly). > > While I have never done it, I guess making one system wide quicklisp > install is easy to do, probably just add user and have his quicklisp > files word- or group readable. And have users read this guy's > setup.lisp from quicklisp install.
System wide installations of third party package managers are usually a bad idea. It could give you problems in the future with the OpenBSD packages. Use always a local installation in your home or project directory. > > And quicklisp allows me to keep using old versions of installed libs, > which ports cannot give me, AFAICT. This one feature is worth going QL > way. At least to me. > > HTH > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
