What's new in Quicklisp this month?

Lisp hero Ben Hyde has done me a big favor and summarized what the new projects in Quicklisp this month are all about.

April 2013 Quicklisp dist update now available

New projects: cl-arff-parser, cl-bayesnet, cl-libpuzzle, cl-one-time-passwords, cl-rrt, cl-secure-read, function-cache, gendl, sha3, trivial-raw-io, yaclanapht.

Updated projects: access, asdf-finalizers, binary-types, binomial-heap, bk-tree, bknr-datastore, buildnode, caramel, cffi, chunga, city-hash, cl+ssl, cl-6502, cl-async, cl-async-future, cl-base32, cl-cairo2, cl-closure-template, cl-csv, cl-decimals, cl-erlang-term, cl-factoring, cl-general-accumulator, cl-gss, cl-i18n, cl-inotify, cl-l10n, cl-libevent2, cl-libxml2, cl-murmurhash, cl-mustache, cl-oauth, cl-pdf, cl-ppcre, cl-protobufs, cl-random, cl-sanitize, cl-seek-project, cl-slice, cl-store, cl-typesetting, clack, cleric, clfswm, closer-mop, clpython, clsql, clsql-helper, codata-recommended-values, coleslaw, collectors, com.google.base, common-lisp-stat, commonqt, css-selectors, doplus, drakma, elf, esrap, f2cl, gbbopen, green-threads, gtk-cffi, ht-simple-ajax, hu.dwim.computed-class, hunchentoot, hyperobject, inotify, kmrcl, lfarm, lift, lisp-interface-library, lisp-unit, lla, log4cl, lparallel, mgl, more-conditions, optima, patron, periods, pileup, plokami, portableaserve, postmodern, rcl, repl-utilities, restas, sb-fastcgi, single-threaded-ccl, sip-hash, slime, temporary-file, trivial-gray-streams, trivial-ldap, twfy, uiop, umlisp, weblocks, xml.location.

Removed projects: genworks-gdl (renamed to "gendl"), printf (depends on smug), pubmed (repo gone), smug (withdrawn per maintainer request).

Updates coming soon

I hope to make a new dist update tomorrow, the 7th of April. In general, I like to make new releases on the first weekend of every month.

I haven't been announcing the past few updates because I wanted to take advantage of a new web service to do so. But development on that service has stalled, so I'll announce tomorrow's update as I usually do.

On an unrelated topic, if you're making a new library that's a CFFI wrapper around a C library, please explain in your README or description what the original C library is for. I've seen a lot of libraries lately that look like this: "This is cl-fribble, a CL wrapper around libfribble." But there's no indication of what libfribble does or why someone would want to use a CL wrapper for it.

Using Quicklisp in interesting ways

Here are a few links with helpful information about using Quicklisp in interesting ways:

• Robert Smith presented A Tutorial for Creating and Publishing Open Source Lisp Software at ILC last year; it includes details on integrating with Quicklisp
• Anton Vodonosov has written two examples of how to load Quicklisp for a project: method 1, method 2
• I wrote a bit about how to "lock" Quicklisp at a particular set of libraries, and how to make it work across separate development systems on the lisp-hug mailing list

I have my own system for fetching and using Quicklisp for my deployable projects, but I haven't refined it enough to write about it yet. How are you using Quicklisp to do neat stuff?

January 2013 dist update now available

New projects: asdf-driver, cl-gambol, cl-mathstats, cl-parallel, cl-randist, cl-rrd, cl-web-crawler, clnuplot, clunit, def-symbol-readmacro, esrap-peg, jenkins, local-package-aliases, marshal, message-oo, read-csv, trivial-octet-streams, xml.location.

Updated projects: access, alexandria, array-operations, asdf-encodings, asdf-utils, cffi-objects, chipz, cl+ssl, cl-6502, cl-abstract-classes, cl-annot, cl-async, cl-cairo2, cl-closure-template, cl-colors, cl-csv, cl-dbi, cl-docutils, cl-enumeration, cl-fastcgi, cl-fbclient, cl-gearman, cl-haml, cl-libevent2, cl-mongo-id, cl-murmurhash, cl-mustache, cl-project, cl-protobufs, cl-s3, cl-sentiment, cl-test-more, cl-unification, clack, clazy, cleric, clfswm, closer-mop, clpython, clsql, clsql-helper, coleslaw, com.informatimago, command-line-arguments, common-lisp-stat, commonqt, data-sift, de.setf.wilbur, defstar, documentation-template, esrap, exscribe, ext-blog, fare-matcher, fare-mop, fare-utils, fast-io, folio, fset, gbbopen, generic-sequences, genworks-gdl, glop, green-threads, gtk-cffi, inferior-shell, ironclad, iterate, let-plus, lisp-executable, lisp-interface-library, lparallel, m2cl, metabang-bind, minheap, nibbles, odd-streams, portableaserve, restas, restas-directory-publisher, rpm, s-base64, s-http-client, s-http-server, s-sysdeps, s-utils, sb-fastcgi, scribble, series, slime, stringprep, trivial-garbage, trivial-ldap, usocket, uuid, weblocks.

Removed projects: lambda-lift.

To get this update, use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp"). Enjoy!

December 2012 Quicklisp dist update now available

New projects: changed-stream, cl-abstract-classes, cl-fuse-meta-fs, cl-gearman, cl-ntriples, cl-prime-maker, cl-sentiment, cl-table, common-lisp-stat, curve, djula, fast-io, generic-sequences, parseltongue, stringprep, symbol-namespaces, trivial-lazy, vector.

Updated projects: archive, asdf-utils, backports, bknr-datastore, bknr-web, buildnode, cffi-objects, chillax, cl+ssl, cl-async, cl-closure-template, cl-dbi, cl-difflib, cl-erlang-term, cl-haml, cl-html-diff, cl-inotify, cl-libevent2, cl-log, cl-murmurhash, cl-mustache, cl-neo4j, cl-opengl, cl-openid, cl-protobufs, cl-rdfxml, cl-redis, cl-s3, cl-sanitize, cl-unification, clack, cleric, clfswm, closer-mop, clsql, clsql-helper, coleslaw, colorize, com.informatimago, commonqt, contextl, dynamic-classes, exscribe, fnv, formlets, gbbopen, genworks-gdl, glu-tessellate, gtk-cffi, hu.dwim.asdf, ieee-floats, incognito-keywords, inferior-shell, iterate, lisp-unit, lparallel, metabang-bind, mgl, more-conditions, open-vrp, optima, png-read, portableaserve, postmodern, pzmq, repl-utilities, restas, restas-directory-publisher, rutils, s-base64, s-http-client, s-http-server, s-sysdeps, s-utils, shadchen, slime, spinneret, wu-decimal, wuwei, xhtmlgen, yason, zs3.

Removed projects: coretest, fcgi, genhash.

This update actually came out a few days ago, but I've been too busy to announce it.

To get the update, use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp")

Enjoy!

Lost projects

There are a number of projects that are currently in Quicklisp, but for which the original source is now lost. I'm not sure whether to include them in future dist updates. Here's a rundown:

• cl-difflib and cl-html-diff: host lemonodor.com has stopped working. update David pointed out in the comments that these projects are available in github.
• coretest: project owner on github (trialcodr) is deleted
• fcgi: host tehran.lain.pl has stopped working
• genhash: host src.hexapodia.net has stopped working

In the Quicklisp universe there are almost no dependencies on these projects, but that might not be the case in the wider world of CL applications. Do you use any of these libraries? Are you interested in keeping them alive and running in some upstream form?