Stuart Sierra writes: > Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Proposal: > > 1) Pull together a repository of common lisp > > utilities under an MIT or BSD style license (no > > restrictions) to try to enable the world of > > asdf-installable packages to come to depend on a single > > common library and so that newcomers will have a body of > > existing code they can exploit to save time and effort. > > As a corrolary to this, what about doing something with all > the great code samples that get posted to comp.lang.lisp > every day? I admit c.l.l. can be a scary place sometimes, > especially for newcomers, but there are some smart people > there who whip up all kinds of useful little utilities, if > only to prove how smart they are. It's unfortunate that so > much of this gets lost in the archives, never to be seen > again. > > So how about this: Someone (I volunteer to start) watch > comp.lang.lisp for interesting and useful bits of code, > label and categorize them, and store them at some central > location where they can be found again. cl-user.net would > probably be a good place. Even better, wrap each utility up > in a package with a descriptive name and make it > ASDF-installable. That would require a place to host lots > of little tarballs, maybe common-lisp.net or even > lispniks.com.
I think the cookbook format would be more useful for these code snippets. > When possible, one could contact authors while their posts > posts are still fresh in their minds and ask for permission. > But often several authors contribute to the same piece of > code. In general, I think it's safe to assume that anything > posted to Usenet is public domain. If anyone complains > about something we re-post, just take it down. > > Think of it as picking flowers in the Lisp Garden. Gotta > love these metaphors. :) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ You never feed me. Perhaps I'll sleep on your face. That will sure show you. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
