August 2013 dist update now available

New projects: cl-autowrap, cl-date-time-parser, cl-ledger, cl-paymill, cl-string-match, epigraph, trivial-tco, vgplot.

Updated projects: access, asdf-dependency-grovel, bt-semaphore, cl-6502, cl-async, cl-bencode, cl-cairo2, cl-enchant, cl-fbclient, cl-gendoc, cl-grace, cl-gss, cl-html-parse, cl-opengl, cl-redis, clfswm, closer-mop, clsql-helper, clws, coleslaw, com.informatimago, common-lisp-stat, commonqt, css-selectors, diff, esrap, exscribe, fs-watcher, gbbopen, gendl, hu.dwim.debug, hu.dwim.def, hu.dwim.perec, hu.dwim.quasi-quote, hu.dwim.stefil, hunchentoot, lfarm, lisp-executable, lisp-unit, lquery, macroexpand-dammit, optima, quicksearch, rfc3339-timestamp, shelly, simple-date-time, spinneret, stmx, swank-crew, uiop, uuid, weblocks, weblocks-utils.

Renamed projects: cl-hctsmsl has been renamed hctsmsl.

I built this dist with ASDF 3. In the near future, Quicklisp will provide ASDF 3 on systems where it is not present. Please let me know if you have any trouble loading anything.

If you'd like to search for useful Quicklisp libraries, I encourage you to give Quickdocs a try!

July 2013 Quicklisp dist update now available

New projects: bt-semaphore, cl-dsl, cl-epmd, cl-glfw3, cl-hctsmsl, cl-indeterminism, consix, fs-watcher, lquery, quicksearch, quickutil, towers, weblocks-tree-widget.

Updated projects: advanced-readtable, antik, buildapp, caveman, cl-6502, cl-algebraic-data-type, cl-async-future, cl-closure-template, cl-curlex, cl-data-format-validation, cl-decimals, cl-devil, cl-enchant, cl-erlang-term, cl-fad, cl-fbclient, cl-generic-arithmetic, cl-gss, cl-ltsv, cl-mongo, cl-mssql, cl-murmurhash, cl-openal, cl-protobufs, cl-sanitize, cl-twitter, clack, cleric, clinch, closer-mop, clsql-helper, clsql-orm, colorize, com.informatimago, commonqt, dartsclhashtree, dbus, djula, do-urlencode, docbrowser, drakma, elf, esrap, garbage-pools, gbbopen, gendl, inferior-shell, inotify, lfarm, local-time, log4cl, lparallel, lredis, marshal, new-op, nst, osicat, postmodern, pzmq, restas, rfc2388, rutils, salza2, shadchen, shelly, slime, spinneret, stmx, stringprep, thnappy, uiop, usocket, utilities.print-items, vecto, weblocks, weblocks-stores, weblocks-utils, wuwei, zpb-ttf, zs3.

Removed projects: cl-seek-project.

Top 100 downloads for May, 2013

Here are the top 100 project downloads for May, 2013:

   1971 alexandria
   1642 cffi
   1546 babel
   1523 trivial-features
   1319 trivial-gray-streams
   1274 slime
   1259 cl-ppcre
   1218 trivial-garbage
   1144 cl+ssl
   1058 bordeaux-threads
    972 usocket
    970 flexi-streams
    933 cl-fad
    883 chunga
    806 md5
    794 cl-base64
    766 quicklisp-slime-helper
    756 closer-mop
    711 hunchentoot
    653 drakma
    619 rfc2388
    590 nibbles
    579 iterate
    530 ironclad
    524 clsql
    523 puri
    499 trivial-backtrace
    447 uffi
    424 cl-who
    403 split-sequence
    330 anaphora
    322 named-readtables
    319 salza2
    315 lispbuilder
    296 metabang-bind
    295 cl-vectors
    293 uuid
    286 clack
    285 postmodern
    284 cl-opengl
    280 local-time
    268 trivial-utf-8
    261 clx
    258 zpng
    244 cl-json
    236 cl-smtp
    231 fare-utils
    226 zpb-ttf
    225 parse-number
    224 cl-clon
    223 gbbopen
    221 yason
    221 restas
    218 vecto
    216 cl-cairo2
    208 cl-closure-template
    190 weblocks
    189 parenscript
    189 cl-annot
    188 osicat
    188 cxml
    183 closure-common
    181 optima
    176 trivial-shell
    173 lparallel
    172 esrap
    171 clfswm
    169 cl-unicode
    169 cl-syntax
    169 cl-csv
    166 html-template
    161 trivial-types
    159 lisp-unit
    158 commonqt
    153 metatilities-base
    152 let-plus
    151 bknr-datastore
    150 mcclim
    150 hu.dwim.asdf
    149 cl-routes
    147 portableaserve
    146 contextl
    146 cl-store
    143 com.informatimago
    139 quickproject
    139 asdf-system-connections
    135 ieee-floats
    133 cl-project
    130 data-sift
    130 cl-marshal
    130 caveman
    129 linedit
    129 gsll
    129 antik
    128 cl-utilities
    127 hu.dwim.util
    123 ltk
    121 plokami
    121 f2cl
    120 cl-containers

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.