On 2006-06-04, Ian Eslick wrote: > Here is a project proposal that I'm willing to champion and support. > I am constantly frustrated by each large project I download also > coming with a their own versions of of various common utility > functions such as Graham's anaphoric macros (aif, awhen), common > list utilities (gather, distribute, shuffle, merge, etc) and so on. > My lisp image is getting filled up with duplicated code between > CL-SQL, UCW, CLOCC, and my own local utilities. It's also annoying > that if I want to keep something portable I have to revert to using > standard lisp and forget about the hundreds of little time and > thought-saving utilities I've developed for my private packages. I > figure I can't be the only one. This may overlap with the CLOCC > project but I find that project is badly organized, poorly licensed > and not actively maintained. > > Champion: > > Ian Eslick
I think this is a neat idea, though I doubt I could contribute time or code. +1 Ian -- go for it. Create a page at the ALU wiki. Get started. You have everything you need. Don't wait for us. Release some code! :) ... That said, if there's another project already out there with the same goals, maybe you could either contribute to it or take it over, if the maintainer has lost interest or doesn't have time any more. Side note: "not having time" is not a pejorative statement, merely a reflection of the fact that we all only have 24 hours in a day, and we must all prioritize our leisure activities. Just as an example, I myself have several thousand pages on my "To Read" shelf, but rarely get to do all the reading I'd like. And, when I *do* do some leisure reading, my "extra-curricular" Lisp programming tends to suffer. :) -- Larry Clapp, Green Thumb _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
