I've been following the slim-vim and appbuilder projects with interest. Even though I use emacs and like it, I know some people who would like to learn Lisp and use Vim. Slim-Vim would smooth out some bumps, I know there are still enough of them.
I haven't managed to contribute to any gardening project. However,I have started writing a practical guide to common lisp in Finnish. I don't know if it's a good idea since I'm a beginner myself but somehow I felt there have been so many little pieces of information I've had to hunt down around the 'net that I want to write them down somewhere. Eventually my goal is to enable a person who knows how to program but doesn't know any CL to set up the environment and have a little GUI/cgi/database -application (depending on the interests of the person) running in less than an hour. I hope it will be helpful one day, at least I have learnt things and had fun along the way. While writing this guide I got an idea for a gardening project. I guess this idea is far from unique and maybe it's too difficult to accomplish and therefore it hasn't happened yet. Also I know there are some people who oppose this idea for some reasons. Anyway the idea is to create a good collection of libraries, maybe a different set for each implementation, depending on which libraries work with it. So there would be a place where I could get libraries which have been tested to work with SBCL version 0.9.x. The libraries would then be upgraded and tested periodically. Maybe even have a user-friendly installer GUI which would fetch the libraries from this repository. I know there is ASDF-install and I have used it too. There are several problems with it though, like for many projects the version is way too old and you're actually supposed to use the CVS-version. Also there is no metadata about which versions of implementations they have been tested against. Still, ASDF-install may be almost there and only requires few changes. Or it may not and it requires more work, anyway I think it'd be worth it. - Sampo _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
