Quicklisp news

Updates coming soon

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:40:00 +0000

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.

SLIME update woes

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:51:00 +0000

If you use Emacs 22 or older, you might encounter a problem with this month's SLIME. It will be fixed in the next release.

April 2012 Quicklisp dist update

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:32:00 +0000

There's a new Quicklisp dist update available. You can get it with (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

New projects: btrie, cambl, cl-fsnotify, cl-general-accumulator, cl-hooks, cl-mustache, cl-op, cl-opencv, cl-stopwatch, clickr, clod, method-combination-utilities, ningle, org-davep-dict, org-davep-dictrepl, periods, printf, quid-pro-quo, spinneret.

Updated projects: access, alexandria, asdf-dependency-grovel, babel, binascii, buildapp, buildnode, caveman, circular-streams, cl-cairo2, cl-clon, cl-data-format-validation, cl-dbi, cl-decimals, cl-fastcgi, cl-gdata, cl-haml, cl-heap, cl-jpeg, cl-libxml2, cl-mediawiki, cl-mw, cl-num-utils, cl-oauth, cl-parser-combinators, cl-project, cl-random, cl-test-more, cl-tk, cl-typesetting, cl-yahoo-finance, clack, clhs, clonsigna, closer-mop, clouchdb, clpmr, com.informatimago, com.informatimago.rdp, common-lisp-actors, contextl, css-lite, curly, defmemo, deoxybyte-gzip, deoxybyte-io, deoxybyte-unix, deoxybyte-utilities, do-urlencode, doplus, esrap, fare-memoization, gbbopen, genworks-gdl, gtk-cffi, hemlock, inferior-shell, ironclad, latex-table, let-plus, lisa, lisp-gflags, lla, log4cl, lparallel, metatilities-base, nibbles, opticl, osc, osicat, package-renaming, portableaserve, postmodern, protobuf, quickproject, reader-interception, recursive-regex, rpm, sb-cga, sclf, shadchen, shuffletron, slime, toot, trivial-features, trivial-shell, trivial-types, wuwei, xcvb, zsort.

Removed projects: cl-2d.

cl-2d is gone at the request of the author.

I made a pretty big update to quickproject, adding template files and some proper documentation. Hope you find it helpful.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me or post to the Quicklisp mailing list.

March bugfix update

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:43:00 +0000

Alexandria had a bug that broke its copy-file function. This busted several things, including, critically, quicklisp-slime-helper. So, for the first time, I've done a dist update way ahead of schedule for a bugfix. To get the update with the fixed version of Alexandria, use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

A number of other projects were updated, too. Here's a summary:

New projects: cl-llvm, defmemo, genworks-gdl, rpm.

Updated projects: alexandria, clouchdb, com.google.base, com.informatimago, gbbopen, gtk-cffi, hemlock, lisp-gflags, log4cl, metatilities-base, mime4cl, slime, spatial-trees, static-vectors, wuwei, xcvb.

March 2012 Quicklisp dist update now available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:07:00 +0000

update/warning: The version of Alexandria in this dist release has a serious bug in copy-stream. Once it's fixed I'll be pushing out a quick update of the March dist. If you haven't updated yet, you should wait until a new announcement.

There's a new Quicklisp dist update available. To get it, use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

In general, I try to publish dist updates on the first weekend of each month. This update slipped a few days. I hope to make the next update on April 7th or 8th.

Changes

New projects: cffi-objects, circular-streams, cl-emacs-if, cl-freetype2, cl-gap-buffer, cl-haml, cl-messagepack, fare-memoization, firephp, inferior-shell, log4cl, marching-cubes, multival-plist, package-renaming, reader-interception, weblocks, zsort.

Updated projects: alexandria, atdoc, caveman, chillax, cl+ssl, cl-azure, cl-cairo2, cl-cli-parser, cl-closure-template, cl-gdata, cl-i18n, cl-inotify, cl-jpeg, cl-kanren-trs, cl-oauth, cl-parser-combinators, cl-portaudio, cl-routes, clack, clfswm, clhs, clonsigna, closer-mop, clpmr, clsql, cobstor, com.informatimago, com.informatimago.rdp, commonqt, contextl, css-selectors, doplus, drakma, exscribe, f2cl, fare-csv, fare-mop, fare-utils, gbbopen, glaw, glop, gtk-cffi, hemlock, hunchentoot, lambda-reader, let-plus, lift, mcclim, mime4cl, mixalot, montezuma, opticl, parse-js, pettomato-indexed-priority-queue, pg, phemlock, postmodern, protobuf, restas, rucksack, rutils, s-xml, sclf, shadchen, slime, smtp4cl, swank-client, trivial-dump-core, trivial-ldap, uri-template, usocket, wuwei, xcvb, xuriella, yason.

Removed projects: cl-llvm.

Notes

Weblocks, which had been out for a few months due to Hunchentoot changes, is updated and back in.

cl-llvm was removed inadvertently - an accident of my build environment that went unnoticed. It will be back in next month. In the meantime, if you need cl-llvm, you can either hold off this upgrade, go back to a previous dist version, or check out cl-llvm in your ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ directory to make it accessible.

February dist update now available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:14:00 +0000

New projects: city-hash, cl-dbi, cl-gdata, cl-portaudio, cl-variates, clesh, clhs, dlist, monkeylib-json, monkeylib-parser, napa-fft3, parseltongue, persistent-tables, random-access-lists, shadchen, swank-client, toadstool, trivial-dump-core.

Updated projects: alexandria, babel, blackthorn-engine, blackthorn-engine-3d, caveman, chipz, cl-2d, cl-azure, cl-cairo2, cl-csv, cl-decimals, cl-dropbox, cl-enumeration, cl-i18n, cl-libxml2, cl-llvm, cl-mongo, cl-mssql, cl-murmurhash, cl-mysql, cl-num-utils, cl-oauth, cl-project, cl-random, cl-redis, cl-scribd, cl-twitter, cl-unification, cl-yahoo-finance, clack, clazy, clfswm, closer-mop, collectors, com.informatimago, com.informatimago.rdp, css-lite, drakma, ext-blog, gbbopen, gtfl, gtk-cffi, ht-simple-ajax, hu.dwim.util, js, latex-table, lift, linedit, lisp-on-lines, lla, lparallel, manifest, metabang-bind, metatilities-base, misc-extensions, mixalot, monkeylib-markup, monkeylib-markup-html, monkeylib-pathnames, monkeylib-prose-diff, monkeylib-utilities, parenscript, perfpiece, png-read, priority-queue, protobuf, quickproject, rutils, shuffletron, slime, toot, yason, zs3.

Removed projects: monkeylib-foo.

Recent Quicklisp bugs

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:33:00 +0000

My CDB changes to the Quicklisp clients caused a few subtle problems.

First, the system CDB file was built with incorrect keys. That could lead to a spurious SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND error when trying to use ql:quickload something.

Second, the CDB files were not cleared out when updating dist metadata. The CDB indexes would point to old systems and software even after everything was meant to be updated.

If you run into a Quicklisp problem that seems like it might be related to these issues, here's a way to fix things:

(ql:update-client) to make sure you have the latest client
Restart your Lisp
(in-package #:ql-dist-user)
(map nil 'delete-file (directory (relative-to (dist "quicklisp") "*.cdb")))

At that point the CDB files should automatically regenerate with the correct data, and will be properly updated during the next dist update.

Sorry for the hassle!

January client and dist updates

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:29:00 +0000

There's an updated Quicklisp client available now. This version fixes up several problems with the support for looking up metadata in CDB files. To get the new client, use (ql:update-client).

I've also updated the software available in Quicklisp. To get the update, use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

New projects:

bitfield-schema - SIMPLE-BIT-VECTOR low level routines and convenient eDSL over it.
cl-bloom - Simple Bloom filters with efficient hashing.
cl-dropbox - Common Lisp Client for the Dropbox API.
cl-gpu
cl-murmurhash - 32-bit version of MurmurHash3.
cl-rsvg2 - Bindings for RSVG Library.
cl-sam
cl-scribd - Commong Lisp Client for the Scribd API.
cl-yahoo-finance - CL interface to Yahoo's finance API
computable-reals - Computable real numbers.
deoxybyte-unix
do-urlencode - Percent Encoding (aka URL Encoding) library
ext-blog - A BLOG engine which supports custom theme
image - An image-drawing with some drawing primitives
kl-verify - A library to generate simple verify code picture
lisp-executable - Library for defining and creating executables that can be called from the Unix shell.
pettomato-deque - A set of double-ended queue implementations.
pettomato-indexed-priority-queue - A binary heap based priority queue implementation with efficient support for find, update, replace, and delete operations.
priority-queue - A priority queue for Common Lisp.
restas.file-publisher - A restas module which can publish static files
stumpwm - A tiling, keyboard driven window manager

Updated projects: 3b-swf, 3bil, 3bmd, babel, bknr-datastore, cl-azure, cl-csv, cl-data-format-validation, cl-docutils, cl-fluidinfo, cl-llvm, cl-locale, cl-marshal, cl-oauth, cl-opengl, cl-quickcheck, cl-stomp, cl-string-complete, clack, clfswm, closer-mop, clpmr, clsql, cobstor, collectors, data-table, deoxybyte-gzip, deoxybyte-io, deoxybyte-systems, diff, doplus, fare-utils, gbbopen, gtk-cffi, hu.dwim.asdf, hu.dwim.delico, hu.dwim.logger, hu.dwim.perec, hu.dwim.rdbms, hu.dwim.reiterate, hu.dwim.stefil, hu.dwim.syntax-sugar, hu.dwim.util, hu.dwim.walker, idna, let-plus, lhstats, linedit, lisp-unit, lla, manifest, mime4cl, mixalot, monkeylib-html, relational-objects-for-lisp, restas, restas-directory-publisher, rfc2388, sclf, shuffletron, slime, static-vectors, stem, thread-pool, toot, trivial-features, trivial-garbage, uffi, wuwei, xcvb, yason, zcdb.

Removed projects: cl-bson-tim.

If you have a project that is available in Quicklisp, please check your system definition. Make sure it has useful metadata in it, like :description, :author, and :license. Several systems have empty description strings; for me, that's worse than a missing description.

SLIME has been updated with a new wire protocol. Please report any SLIME issues to the SLIME maintainers.

If you have any problems getting or using Quicklisp updates, let me know by email or on the Quicklisp mailing list.

Speeding up system info

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Quicklisp uses two text files for information about project releases (releases.txt) and systems (systems.txt). Whenever information about a system was needed (for example, where its system file can be found), both files were loaded completely, from scratch.

I made it that way because it was pretty easy. People immediately noticed that it was also pretty slow, especially when using (asdf:load-system "...") instead of (ql:quickload "..."). The penalty for frequent loading and reloading of the metadata got worse as the number of Quicklisp systems grew.

Today I released a client update that can load metadata from a fast on-disk hash table, a CDB file. The big flat files are converted to CDB once, as needed, and thereafter getting metadata is super-speedy. On my laptop, the improvement for lookups is about 100x; your results will depend on the speed of your disk.

To get the update, use (ql:update-client) and restart Lisp.

If this change causes you any trouble, please let me know via the Quicklisp mailing list.

UPDATE: This change causes trouble. I'm going to put out a fix as soon as I can. Please don't update; if you did update, you can revert with something like this:

cd ~/quicklisp/
wget http://beta.quicklisp.org/quickstart/quicklisp-2011111500.tgz
tar xzvf quicklisp-2011111500.tgz
rm -rf ~/.cache/common-lisp/

UPDATE 2: I can't reproduce the trouble I saw earlier. If you run into trouble, let me know. I really need cases I can reproduce to fix things.

UPDATE 3: Thanks to Mike Clarke, I found a serious problem with the CDB scheme. A fix will be available within a day or two.

Project download stats for November

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Here are some stats for the top 50 project downloads in November:

   1950 alexandria
   1203 slime
   1126 cl+ssl
   1033 babel
    936 usocket
    907 trivial-features
    904 rfc2388
    902 bordeaux-threads
    899 hunchentoot
    889 cffi
    849 trivial-garbage
    828 closer-mop
    820 trivial-gray-streams
    789 cl-ppcre
    703 flexi-streams
    665 cl-fad
    620 iterate
    612 cl-base64
    591 quicklisp-slime-helper
    579 chunga
    499 puri
    488 md5
    480 trivial-backtrace
    470 drakma
    426 split-sequence
    412 metatilities-base
    365 anaphora
    340 cl-who
    327 fare-utils
    313 salza2
    297 cl-json
    292 metabang-bind
    280 uffi
    273 named-readtables
    257 clsql
    242 parenscript
    237 zpb-ttf
    230 asdf-system-connections
    227 zpng
    210 postmodern
    208 fare-matcher
    201 cl-vectors
    200 ironclad
    196 vecto
    190 cl-opengl
    189 clx
    182 arnesi
    169 osicat
    168 parse-number
    167 cl-containers

This report only shows "raw" download figures. It does not distinguish between projects downloaded directly by user request and projects downloaded automatically as dependencies.

December Quicklisp dist update now available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:42:00 +0000

There's a new Quicklisp dist update for December. You can get it by evaluating (ql:update-dist "quicklisp"). Here's the breakdown of the changes this month:

New projects: access, cl-adt, cl-fluidinfo, cl-inotify, cl-kyoto-cabinet, cl-locale, cl-marshal, cl-package-locks, cl-string-complete, de.setf.wilbur, lambda-reader, lhstats, macroexpand-dammit, manifest, monkeylib-html, monkeylib-text-languages, monkeylib-text-output, myweb, pal, perfpiece, toot.

Updated projects: able, alexandria, buildapp, caveman, cl-annot, cl-anonfun, cl-closure-template, cl-csv, cl-data-format-validation, cl-generic-arithmetic, cl-mongo, cl-num-utils, cl-odesk, cl-random, cl-rcfiles, cl-redis, cl-sanitize, cl-syntax, cl-tk, clack, closer-mop, clsql, clx, com.google.base, data-table, doplus, exscribe, f2cl, fare-csv, fare-matcher, fare-mop, fare-utils, folio, fset, gbbopen, hu.dwim.syntax-sugar, hunchentoot, idna, let-plus, linedit, lisp-gflags, lla, lparallel, meta, misc-extensions, monkeylib-binary-data, monkeylib-foo, monkeylib-macro-utilities, monkeylib-markup, monkeylib-markup-html, monkeylib-pathnames, monkeylib-prose-diff, monkeylib-utilities, opticl, parenscript-classic, parse-js, place-utils, postmodern, protobuf, quickproject, restas, rutils, salza2, scribble, skippy, st-json, static-vectors, talcl, trivial-types, vecto, wu-decimal, wuwei, xcvb, yason, zcdb, zpb-exif, zpb-ttf, zpng, zs3.

Removed projects: ch-util, clg, loopless, weblocks.

A bit more on a few of the removed projects: ch-util is Cyrus Harmon's personal utilities library. He updated his other projects to use Alexandria instead. That means there are now only 12 personal utility libraries in Quicklisp instead of 13. That's a trend I hope to see continue. clg is a binding to Gtk+, but in fact it never quite built, and this month I took it out entirely. loopless was removed at the request of the author. And weblocks no longer builds with Hunchentoot 1.2.x. Despite several days of trying to find someone, anyone to comment on how it might get fixed, I didn't hear any feedback. Here's hoping it's just a temporary communication breakdown and weblocks will be available in some future Quicklisp dist update.

I did not include the very latest version of SLIME from CVS this month. There were major changes in SLIME's communication mechanism this month, and there was a flurry of activity just before today's release, and I didn't want to risk bundling it up at a bad time.

If you have any comments, questions, or other feedback, please feel free to email me or discuss it on the Quicklisp mailing list.

Enjoy!

Hunchentoot and Weblocks

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Hunchentoot development has picked up after a lengthy hiatus, and some of the recent changes have affected other projects. For the most part, projects have been adapted to work, but there's a big exception: Weblocks.

Weblocks does not build with Hunchentoot 1.2.2 because it references hunchentoot:*default-handler*, which doesn't exist any more. I reported the problem on the mailing list, but haven't gotten a response yet.

Do you use Weblocks? Can you help adapt it to the new Hunchentoot? If it isn't updated sometime soon, I won't be able to include it in Quicklisp in the future. (You can always go back in time, if you have to.)

The Quicklisp release schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:37:00 +0000

I've been trying to make a Quicklisp dist update about once per month. For next month, I hope to make the update on December 3rd.

My talk in Amsterdam

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:37:00 +0000

I gave a talk entitled "Quicklisp, technically and socially" at ECLM 2011 in Amsterdam last month. Here is some material from the talk:

Video
Slides
Script (not a transcript, but the text I wrote to prepare)

Hope you find it interesting!

Local projects update

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:49:00 +0000

When I announced the local-projects feature, I mentioned that symlinking directories into the local-projects directory wouldn't work on SBCL or Clozure CL. I'm pleased to report that both SBCL and ClozureCL have pending updates committed to change this situation; in the near future, when using the latest SBCL or Clozure CL, you will be able to symlink directories into local-projects and things should just work.

Thanks to the helpful maintainers of both implementations for the changes to make this possible.

Client update available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:44:00 +0000

I've posted a new Quicklisp client. You can get it with (ql:update-client), and it will take effect after a restart. It changes how local projects are found.

Local projects no longer take precedence over all other system search mechanisms. The local project directory ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ is checked after the ASDF source registry but before the Quicklisp dist mechanism. That means you can override Quicklisp systems, either local project systems or dist software systems, by managing your ASDF central registry appropriately.

This change is in response to user feedback. If you run into any problems with the local project mechanism, which is still evolving, please let me know!

November Quicklisp updates

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Survey

I'm conducting a new Quicklisp survey. I'd like to find out the best way to reach the most people when there is Quicklisp news to share. It's one question, so if you can, please go fill it out.

Client Update

There's a new Quicklisp client available. You can get it with (ql:update-client). The new version will take effect after you restart your Lisp.

This client has a feature that I think will be very helpful: any directory created in ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ will be automatically scanned for system files. There's no need to run an additional command to reconfigure ASDF.

For example, if there's a library that isn't part of Quicklisp, you can try it out with something like this in a shell:

$ cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects/

$ git clone git://github.com/xach/format-time.git

And something like this in a REPL:

* (ql:quickload "format-time")

There is no need to update your ASDF source registry or initialize it manually after adding new projects. This should simplify the directions authors can provide to people who want to try their projects.

There are a few things to keep in mind with this new feature:

First, you can't just symlink something into ~/quicklisp/local-projects/; for some Lisps (CLISP, ECL) that works, for others (SBCL, ClozureCL) it doesn't. I hope to eliminate that limitation soon.

Also, only projects created in the top level of the directory are automatically scanned. Directories created or modified below the top level do not trigger an automatic scan. You can initiate a manual scan with (ql:register-local-projects), though.

Finally, projects in ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ take precedence over both systems in the ASDF source registry and systems in Quicklisp. I'm not sure I'll keep that ordering if it causes problems.

This feature is a work in progress, so I appreciate any feedback, positive or negative.

Dist Update

I've updated the Quicklisp dist. You can get the update with (ql:update-dist "quicklisp").

Here's a summary of the changes this month:

New projects: able, asdf-dependency-grovel, autoproject, binascii, cgn, cl-apple-plist, cl-generic-arithmetic, cl-launch, cl-prolog, cl-rmath, cl-tokyo-cabinet, data-sift, deoxybyte-gzip, deoxybyte-io, deoxybyte-systems, deoxybyte-utilities, exscribe, fare-mop, lparallel, queues, text-query, thread.comm.rendezvous, xcvb, xml-emitter.

Updated projects: alexandria, antik, blackthorn-engine-3d, buildnode, caveman, chipz, cl+ssl, cl-2d, cl-closure-template, cl-csv, cl-inflector, cl-langutils, cl-match, cl-mediawiki, cl-num-utils, cl-oauth, cl-odesk, cl-quickcheck, cl-random, cl-scrobbler, cl-stomp, cl-test-more, cl-tuples, cl-twitter, cl-uglify-js, clack, clawk, clfswm, closer-mop, clsql-orm, collectors, com.google.base, command-line-arguments, contextl, css-selectors, data-table, doplus, elf, fare-utils, gbbopen, glop, group-by, gsll, gtk-cffi, hu.dwim.defclass-star, hu.dwim.reiterate, hu.dwim.stefil, hu.dwim.util, hunchentoot, hunchentoot-cgi, latex-table, lisp-gflags, lla, meta, metatilities-base, nibbles, parse-js, plokami, postmodern, protobuf, recursive-regex, restas, restas-directory-publisher, rfc2388, rpc4cl, rutils, screamer, simple-date-time, slime, symbol-munger, talcl, tap-unit-test, trivial-types, uri-template.

Removed projects: cl-webkit, tilde, webfunk.

cl-webkit has been removed because it now requires a version of the webkit library that I haven't been able to test. I hope to restore it next month. tilde has been removed because it's an unnecessary sbcl-only library; SBCL supports "~" in pathnames without any patches now. And webfunk no longer builds with the latest Hunchentoot.

Hunchentoot has a big update this month, the first new release in more than a year. It has a few backwards-incompatible changes. Affected projects in Quicklisp (except for webfunk) have been updated. However, you might find that your own Hunchentoot-using projects are affected by the changes. If that's problematic, you can either avoid updating Quicklisp, or if you've already updated, you can go back to a previous version.

As usual, if you have any questions or comments about Quicklisp updates, feel free to email me or discuss things on the Quicklisp mailing list.

Happy Lisping!

A word of warning

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:25:00 +0000

I will update the Quicklisp dist within a few days. The update will include a fairly major update to Hunchentoot, one that changes the public Hunchentoot API in a few backwards-incompatible ways.

All Quicklisp libraries that depend on Hunchentoot have been updated, if needed, to work with the API changes. However, if you have a private or local project that depends on Hunchentoot, you may find that it needs to be updated to work with the new version.

If, for whatever reason, you don't want to use the new Hunchentoot, you can always use Quicklisp's ability to go back in time to the previous version.

This is the first big backwards-incompatible update of its kind for such a major project, so if you run into problems or have feedback, please let me know. Feel free to email me or contact the Quicklisp mailing list.

Project download statistics

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Here are the top 100 Quicklisp downloads for the past three months:

   2131 alexandria
   1964 babel
   1742 trivial-garbage
   1630 slime
   1583 usocket
   1512 trivial-features
   1501 bordeaux-threads
   1482 cl-ppcre
   1476 cffi
   1390 trivial-gray-streams
   1386 cl+ssl
   1226 closer-mop
   1192 rfc2388
   1154 flexi-streams
   1105 cl-fad
   1074 cl-base64
   1048 chunga
    965 anaphora
    953 md5
    925 quicklisp-slime-helper
    918 puri
    910 trivial-backtrace
    892 hunchentoot
    763 split-sequence
    720 cl-json
    668 iterate
    654 salza2
    630 cl-who
    613 drakma
    612 clsql
    606 uffi
    596 named-readtables
    589 metabang-bind
    571 parenscript
    543 zpb-ttf
    479 metatilities-base
    465 weblocks
    460 zpng
    458 local-time
    421 cl-vectors
    412 vecto
    410 cxml
    402 fare-utils
    397 fare-matcher
    397 cl-opengl
    395 ironclad
    391 parse-number
    376 lispbuilder
    375 asdf-system-connections
    368 f-underscore
    366 cl-containers
    365 s-xml
    359 clx
    358 arnesi
    357 osicat
    313 closure-common
    307 html-template
    295 postmodern
    294 fiveam
    285 mcclim
    284 cl-cont
    272 moptilities
    264 iolib
    262 trivial-timeout
    254 metatilities
    218 kmrcl
    217 rucksack
    207 quickproject
    207 portableaserve
    202 cl-utilities
    202 closure-html
    196 cl-yacc
    195 trivial-utf-8
    183 clack
    181 s-sysdeps
    177 cl-annot
    175 uuid
    173 ltk
    172 elephant
    171 cl-oauth
    165 ieee-floats
    164 gsll
    163 trivial-shell
    162 spatial-trees
    162 restas
    161 cl-unicode
    157 hu.dwim.asdf
    153 flexichain
    153 cl-gtk2
    151 cl-prevalence
    148 linedit
    148 cl-cairo2
    147 cl-routes
    146 cl-colors
    143 cl-test-more
    138 fsbv
    133 cl-num-utils
    132 lisp-unit
    129 cl-modlisp
    126 cl-store

Note that this does not distinguish between projects explicitly requested and projects implicitly fetched to satisfy dependencies.

Quicklisp software updates available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Last night I uploaded a new version of the Quicklisp client, and an update to the bootstrap file quicklisp.lisp. You can update your local version of the client with (ql:update-client).

The new client has a few notable changes.

First, Douglas T. Crosher sent patches to enable Quicklisp to bootstrap and run on Scieneer Common Lisp. Thanks, Douglas!

Second, software archives are now checked for size validity before use. Some people have run into trouble with corrupted downloads, but Quicklisp didn't detect the problem very early. It led to obscure, hard-to-debug errors. The new size check will present a more obvious error and a useful restart. (A future update will add content digest checks.)

Third, a new command, (ql:where-is-system "foo"), will return the pathname of the directory in which the system foo is defined. This is useful for determining from where a particular system is loading.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me or discuss things on the Quicklisp mailing list.

Happy Quicklisping!

October 1 Quicklisp dist update now available

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:11:00 +0000

I've updated the Quicklisp dist again. Here are the differences relative to the last update:

New projects: chemical-compounds, chtml-matcher, cl-anonfun, cl-autorepo, cl-gene-searcher, cl-kanren-trs, cl-langutils, cl-scrobbler, cl-speedy-queue, cl-stdutils, cl-tuples, com.google.base, doplus, gtk-cffi, hh-aws, hh-redblack, lisa, lisp-gflags, periodic-table, recursive-regex, trivial-types, and unicly.

Updated projects: 3bmd, antik, bknr-datastore, caveman, cl+ssl, cl-2d, cl-closure-template, cl-csv, cl-docutils, cl-enumeration, cl-l10n, cl-libxml2, cl-mime, cl-mssql, cl-opengl, cl-openid, cl-pattern, cl-project, cl-redis, cl-syntax, cl-test-more, cl-unicode, clack, clsql, clsql-orm, csv-parser, drakma, elephant, external-program, fare-matcher, fare-utils, gbbopen, glaw, glop, gsharp, gsll, hu.dwim.logger, hu.dwim.partial-eval, hu.dwim.perec, hu.dwim.quasi-quote, hu.dwim.rdbms, hu.dwim.util, iterate, linedit, lredis, parse-js, postmodern, protobuf, rutils, shuffletron, slime, thread-pool, trivial-utf-8, usocket, wuwei, and yason.

Removed projects: cl-soap, hu.dwim.wui, m2cl, and symbolicweb.

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

Enjoy!

Slow news month

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:29:00 +0000

I don't post very frequently in this blog. I tend to save it for longer announcements and other things. I do post somewhat more frequently to my twitter account, @quicklisp. If you want little bits of Quicklisp trivia delivered more frequently, try following along there.

Going back in (dist) time

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:23:00 +0000

So you updated Quicklisp with (ql:update-dist "quicklisp"), and now a library you depended on is broken. It returns 42 from a function that previously returned 21, or maybe the API changed in an important incompatible way. Now your project is stalled and you have to figure out how to make things work again.

Quicklisp is designed with this situation in mind. Old project sources are kept around in indefinitely, and at a permanent URL, so you can go back to old sets of projects.

The user interface needs to be cleaned up, but here's how it works today:

* (use-package :ql-dist)
* (available-versions (dist "quicklisp"))
(("2011-07-30" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-07-30/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-06-19" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-06-19/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-05-22" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-05-22/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-04-18" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-04-18/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-03-20" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-03-20/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-02-19" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-02-19/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2011-01-10" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-01-10/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2010-12-07" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2010-12-07/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2010-11-07" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2010-11-07/distinfo.txt") 
 ("2010-10-07" . "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2010-10-07/distinfo.txt"))
* (install-dist "http://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2011-06-19/distinfo.txt" :replace t)
lots of output

That set of commands will revert to the June, 2011 Quicklisp dist. So if your project critically depends on the versions you got in June, you can always go back to it.

Two updates today: new client and July dist

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:26:00 +0000

There are two updates available for Quicklisp users today.

The first is a client update. The new client has a tiny but important fix with how it displays what changes will be made for a dist update. Before, lingering temporary files could interfere and it could give an alarming report that most projects were being removed. With the fix in place, the report now gives accurate information about which projects have been added, updated, and removed. To get the client update, use (ql:update-client) and restart your Lisp.

The second is the July Quicklisp dist update. Here's what you'll see when you update:

Changes from quicklisp 2011-06-19 to quicklisp 2011-07-30:
  New projects:
    blackthorn-engine-3d-20110730-hg
    cl-inflector-20110730-git
    cl-random-20110730-git
    cl-selenium-0.4
    clsql-fluid-20110730-darcs
    clsql-orm-20110730-git
    collectors-20110730-git
    com.informatigo.rdp-20110730-git
    elf-20110730-git
    lla-20110730-git
    telnetlib-20110730-git

  Updated projects:
    babel-20101107-darcs -> babel-20110730-git
    buildnode-20110619-git -> buildnode-20110730-git
    caveman-20110619-git -> caveman-20110730-git
    cl-2d-20110619-git -> cl-2d-20110730-git
    cl-closure-template-20110619-git -> cl-closure-template-20110730-git
    cl-creditcard-20110522-git -> cl-creditcard-20110730-git
    cl-decimals-20110619-git -> cl-decimals-20110730-git
    cl-glfw-20110619-git -> cl-glfw-20110730-git
    cl-json-20101006-darcs -> cl-json-20110730-darcs
    cl-l10n-20110219-darcs -> cl-l10n-20110730-darcs
    cl-mediawiki-20110522-git -> cl-mediawiki-20110730-git
    cl-mongo-20110619-git -> cl-mongo-20110730-git
    cl-num-utils-20110619-git -> cl-num-utils-20110730-git
    cl-odesk-20110619-git -> cl-odesk-20110730-git
    cl-openal-20110522-git -> cl-openal-20110730-git
    cl-openid-20110619-darcs -> cl-openid-20110730-darcs
    cl-pattern-20110619-git -> cl-pattern-20110730-git
    cl-project-20110619-git -> cl-project-20110730-git
    cl-twitter-20110619-git -> cl-twitter-20110730-git
    cl-uglify-js-20110418-git -> cl-uglify-js-20110730-git
    clack-20110619-git -> clack-20110730-git
    cleric-20110619-git -> cleric-20110730-git
    closer-mop-20110619-darcs -> closer-mop-20110730-darcs
    clpython-20110619-git -> clpython-20110730-git
    clsql-20110619-git -> clsql-20110730-git
    com.informatigo-20110522-git -> com.informatigo-20110730-git
    css-selectors-20110619-git -> css-selectors-20110730-git
    dbus-20110219-git -> dbus-20110730-git
    eos-20101006-git -> eos-20110730-git
    external-program-20110522-git -> external-program-20110730-git
    gbbopen-20110619-svn -> gbbopen-20110730-svn
    glaw-20110619-git -> glaw-20110730-git
    glop-20110219-git -> glop-20110730-git
    group-by-20110619-git -> group-by-20110730-git
    gsll-20110418-git -> gsll-20110730-git
    hu.dwim.wui-20110320-darcs -> hu.dwim.wui-20110730-darcs
    hyperobject-20101006-git -> hyperobject-20110730-git
    kmrcl-20101006-git -> kmrcl-20110730-git
    let-plus-20110619-git -> let-plus-20110730-git
    lredis-20110110-git -> lredis-20110730-git
    ltk-0.91 -> ltk-0.96
    m2cl-20110619-git -> m2cl-20110730-git
    mcclim-20110522-cvs -> mcclim-20110730-cvs
    modf-20110619-git -> modf-20110730-git
    paiprolog-20110418-git -> paiprolog-20110730-git
    parse-js-20110320-git -> parse-js-20110730-git
    parse-number-1.0 -> parse-number-1.2
    portableaserve-20101006-cvs -> portableaserve-20110730-cvs
    rfc2388-binary-20110320-darcs -> rfc2388-binary-20110730-darcs
    rucksack-20110522-cvs -> rucksack-20110730-cvs
    s-protobuf-20101006-git -> s-protobuf-20110730-git
    s-xml-20101006-http -> s-xml-20110730-cvs
    slime-20110619-cvs -> slime-20110730-cvs
    snmp-6.0.1 -> snmp-6.0.2
    symbolicweb-20110418-git -> symbolicweb-20110730-git
    trivial-garbage-20101006-darcs -> trivial-garbage-20110730-git
    umlisp-20110418-git -> umlisp-20110730-git
    uuid-20110320-http -> uuid-20110730-http
    weblocks-20110619-hg -> weblocks-20110730-hg

  Removed projects:
    blackthorn-engine-20110522-hg
    elephant-20110110-darcs

blackthorn-engine has been replaced with blackthorn-engine-3d, a new project by the same author. elephant has been removed because it hasn't worked on SBCL for several months now, and patches for the problem have been ignored. As far as I can tell, Elephant is effectively unmaintained.

The metadata from the June dist caused problems with installing f2cl and GBBopen. The July dist has been updated to fix all known problems. If you have any trouble installing any project, please let me know.

Enjoy!

Work in progress: Quicklisp project documentation

noreply@blogger.com (Xach) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:47:00 +0000

I've been working on a project to automatically gather and publish all the documentation available for projects that are part of Quicklisp. It's not done, but I thought I'd share the work in progress.