John Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone explain the relation to me between CLOCC, CCLAN and vn-cclan? > > http://cclan.sourceforge.net/ > > http://clocc.sourceforge.net/ > > http://www.cliki.net/vn-cclan
CLOCC was an early attempt to collect free, portable and self-contained Common Lisp software. You may think of it as a sort of combination of a project site (for libraries, tools, etc.) and a repository. It predates Common-Lisp.net and came at a time when announcements of new packages to comp.lang.lisp were rare events. As far as I can remember, the preferred software distribution method of CLOCC has always been via CVS. There were few--if any--formal releases. Some CLOCC subsystems, however, have been actively maintained since the project started (e.g. cllib, f2cl, ytools). cCLan and vn-cCLan (now obsolete; was a temporary project name) are instead repositories of Lisp software maintained elsewhere. They were intended to provide tarballs and software distribution archives for download, not to provide development facilities to projects. ASDF-INSTALL was created to support cCLan. > I ask because the cl-port module is what a lot of newbies need: portable ways > of doing common bread-and-butter things like changing directories, opening a > socket..it should definitely have a higher profile, and it's in bit of a > state. > It doesn't work with sbcl, and the CVS tarball doesn't extract into a usable > format. If you are willing to contribute for separately repackaging port and/or other subsystems, I suggest that you write to the CLOCC mailing list. Last time I checked, they were apparently not interested in .asd files for the major subsystems. Paolo -- Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log - http://www.paoloamoroso.it/log _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
