Project download stats for November

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!