2012-05-10

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.

6 comments:

  1. Thank you for doing this. Quicklisp is a huge benefit to the Common Lisp community.

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  2. Thanks. Any chance of quicklisp automatically removing, or providing a command to remove, older versions of software under its control?

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    1. It's on the list of things to do.

      The old stuff lingers, but it doesn't interfere (except for chewing up disk space).

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    2. But it does. This morning, I had to remove cl-fad v0.6 by hand because Quicklisp picked it up instead the newer v0.7 one, also installed. Quickutil needs v0.7 because it uses OPEN-TEMPORARY.

      BTW, contrary to what the website says, quickutil is not in quicklisp ?

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    3. The next time this happens, will you please let me know? I'm not sure exactly how you could encounter this kind of situation and I'd like to troubleshoot.

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