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escondida

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 157

Proposal: Lisp module packaging standards

If you go to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lis … Guidelines, you'll find a proposal for a standard way of packaging lisp stuff. If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to check it out, edit as needed, etc. Enjoy!

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Proposal: Lisp module packaging standards

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lis … Guidelines should be the correct link

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dejari

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-09-12

Posts: 72

Re: Proposal: Lisp module packaging standards

There are several possibilities of managing Common Lisp libraries.

The first decision would be Debian's Common Lisp Controller versus ASDF/Mudballs.

I don't know much about the CLC, but I think Mudballs (being a modern version of ASDF and ASDF-INSTALL) would be suitable for managament of CL stuff.

A minor problem is how to bootstrap it. Do we require some Lisp installed for running MB? Or do we compile a self-sufficient binary?

Of course we could remove the requirement to have Mudballs for installing packages altogether and just use it for *building* our CL packages, i.e. let it download and install a system into $startdir/pkg.

What do you think of this approach?