On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Gary King wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I was looking at http://www.lispniks.com/l3/package-index.html and > http://wiki.alu.org:80/Gardeners_Package_Repository and feel > confused. It seems to be that much of this information can be > collected semi-automatically using the information found in > defsystems (ASDF or MK:DEFSYSTEM) and in the defpackage forms. It > seems to me that the effort involved in writing the code to > maintain this list would be higher initially but lower in the long > run.
Indeeed. I already have some code to do that. I just threw it up on the web at: <http://www.lispniks.com/l3/code/> The original idea was that we would loosely couple the library list from the libraries themselves but encourage library authors to include more of the information in .asd files until eventually it could all be extracted from there. (Or, possibly, authors might prefer to not clutter their .asd files with all this information but could include a DEFLIB form with their library. Either way.) Anyway, take a look at the code I posted and see if it is of any use. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
