June Quicklisp dist update available

I was lazy busy enough in May that I failed to make a release. Sorry about that. I made the June release on the 15th, but only now got around to announcing it. So, here are the changes:

New projects: big-string, cl-css, cl-curlex, cl-enchant, cl-geoip, cl-performance-tuning-helper, cl-tcod, cl-template, clache, clinch, clite, clobber, delorean, generators, gettext, inner-conditional, lowlight, new-op, petit.package-utils, policy-cond, pretty-function, rectangle-packing, stmx, track-best, treedb, utilities.print-items, weblocks-stores, weblocks-utils.

Updated projects: 3bmd, antik, array-operations, asdf-finalizers, asdf-project-helper, backports, binary-types, bordeaux-threads, buildnode, cffi, chronicity, cl-6502, cl-algebraic-data-type, cl-async, cl-async-future, cl-cairo2, cl-data-format-validation, cl-dbi, cl-decimals, cl-dot, cl-freetype2, cl-general-accumulator, cl-geocode, cl-glfw, cl-gss, cl-html5-parser, cl-iconv, cl-libxml2, cl-murmurhash, cl-num-utils, cl-openal, cl-prime-maker, cl-protobufs, cl-quakeinfo, cl-rrt, cl-seek-project, cl-selenium, cl-skip-list, cl-slice, cl-tulip-graph, clack, clfswm, closer-mop, clpython, clsql-orm, coleslaw, colorize, com.informatimago, commonqt, css-selectors, dartsclhashtree, defmacro-enhance, djula, doplus, dynamic-collect, fare-mop, fare-utils, fiveam, gbbopen, gendl, gsll, http-parse, hu.dwim.delico, hu.dwim.util, hu.dwim.walker, hunchentoot, intercom, lisp-gflags, lisp-interface-library, lisp-unit, lla, local-time, log4cl, lparallel, make-hash, message-oo, mime4cl, montezuma, more-conditions, mtlisp, optima, pzmq, query-fs, rfc2109, romreader, sclf, sip-hash, slime, spinneret, stp-query, stringprep, toadstool, uiop, weblocks, yaclanapht.

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

If this update breaks any of your software, see Going back in (dist) time.

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!