Boston Lisp Meeting 2012-05-17

Fare took this photo of my Quicklisp presentation at the Boston Lisp Meeting two weeks ago. That's RMS in the background; he asked a topical question about my licensing policy. Fare's entire set is available on Picasa.

I hope to publish the slides and source code soon. Audio recording equipment was present, but I don't know if there will be audio available.

All clear

It looks like I have found a temporary workaround for my S3 problems, and the current dist is fully available to load. You can get it with (ql:update-dist "quicklisp"). I'm sorry for the muddled way in which this update took place, and hope to figure out the Amazon issues and do more testing for the next release.

S3 woes

I am a huge fan of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). It's allowed me to host Quicklisp data cheaply and reliably for a long time.

However, over the past few days, I've run into some permission problems with the Quicklisp S3 objects, and the latest Quicklisp dist update is damaged as a result. Files that seem to be present are not actually available for download, and I'm not sure why.

I don't recommend updating your Quicklisp dist until this problem is resolved. I hope to fix it within the next 24 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience!

May 2012 Quicklisp dist update

The May 2012 update of Quicklisp is finally available. You can get it with (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

New projects: checkl, cl-crypt, cl-ev, cl-gendoc, cl-mongo-id, clx-xembed, docbrowser, donuts, escalator, hinge, lisp-zmq, m2cl, madeira-port, minheap, repl-utilities, sapaclisp, sexml, shelly, swank-crew, temporary-file, time-interval.

Updated projects: access, adw-charting, alexandria, antik, bknr-datastore, bknr-web, blackthorn-engine, blackthorn-engine-3d, buildnode, caveman, cells, cells-gtk3, cffi, cffi-objects, chillax, chronicity, cl+ssl, cl-azure, cl-bibtex, cl-cairo2, cl-closure-template, cl-csv, cl-data-format-validation, cl-dbi, cl-decimals, cl-docutils, cl-dot, cl-enumeration, cl-freetype2, cl-fsnotify, cl-gd, cl-gdata, cl-geometry, cl-glfw, cl-graph, cl-gtk2, cl-haml, cl-iconv, cl-inflector, cl-irregsexp, cl-kyoto-cabinet, cl-l10n-cldr, cl-locale, cl-m4, cl-markup, cl-marshal, cl-mediawiki, cl-mustache, cl-openal, cl-opengl, cl-openid, cl-pdf, cl-project, cl-random, cl-redis, cl-sam, cl-syntax, cl-test-more, cl-tuples, cl-unicode, cl-vectors, cl-yahoo-finance, clack, clfswm, clhs, clonsigna, closer-mop, closure-html, clsql, clws, clx, com.google.base, com.informatimago, common-lisp-actors, commonqt, contextl, cxml-stp, dbus, de.setf.wilbur, deoxybyte-gzip, deoxybyte-io, deoxybyte-systems, deoxybyte-unix, dlist, doplus, ec2, elephant, exscribe, ext-blog, external-program, f2cl, fare-memoization, fare-utils, fnv, fomus, gbbopen, genworks-gdl, getopt, glop, gordon, gsharp, gsll, gtk-cffi, hemlock, hu.dwim.common, hu.dwim.def, hu.dwim.perec, hu.dwim.rdbms, hu.dwim.reiterate, hu.dwim.stefil, hu.dwim.syntax-sugar, hu.dwim.util, imago, inferior-shell, inotify, iterate, js-parser, jwacs, kl-verify, lambda-gtk, lambda-reader, lift, linedit, lisp-executable, lisp-on-lines, lisp-unit, lispbuilder, lml, local-time, log4cl, lparallel, mcclim, metatilities-base, modf, monkeylib-markup, monkeylib-utilities, montezuma, mtlisp, myweb, napa-fft3, nibbles, ningle, opticl, paiprolog, parseltongue, pettomato-indexed-priority-queue, phemlock, pipes, place-utils, plain-odbc, plexippus-xpath, portableaserve, postmodern, postoffice, protobuf, queues, quid-pro-quo, rcl, reversi, rlc, rutils, s-http-client, s-http-server, s-xml, sb-cga, sb-fastcgi, sequence-iterators, sheeple, slime, spinneret, st-json, sw-stm, teepeedee2, telnetlib, toadstool, toot, trivial-backtrace, ucw, uffi, unicly, unit-test, uuid, verrazano, weblocks, wuwei, xcvb, yaclml, zsort.

Removed projects: cl-opencv, com.informatimago.rdp.

On an unrelated note, on Thursday I gave a talk at the Boston Lisp Meeting called "Inside the Quicklisp Sausage Factory", about the code I use to manage these monthly releases. I'll publish the slides and the software sometime in the next few weeks.

Talking Quicklisp tonight

I'm headed down from Maine to give a talk in Boston tonight about Quicklisp. It will be in the Star Conference Room in the Stata Center at MIT at 6pm. I hope to give you a better idea about what Quicklisp dists are and how I produce them on a monthly (hah!) basis. I'm going to cover the software I use that has never been released or discussed publicly before.

I look forward to seeing old Lisp friends and meeting new people, too! If you're in the Boston area, come on over and hang out!

Updates coming soon

I usually like to update Quicklisp libraries on the first weekend of each month. A few things conspired to delay me this time around, but I hope to have updates published by this Sunday, May 13th.

The coming update includes version 0.10.7.1 of CFFI, which has a handful of backwards-incompatible changes. For the most part, Quicklisp projects have been updated to fix compile-time problems with CFFI compatibility. There remains the possibility that some problems lurk that will only appear at runtime. If you work on a project that relies on CFFI, you may want to run it through its paces with the new version to make sure everything still works properly.

update I was wrong about the CFFI updates. There haven't been any backwards-incompatible changes from 0.10.6 to 0.10.7.1. Sorry for the confusion.