Lucas,

Nice stuff! If you want to update the CL examples in the Guide to use
this, that'll make it 'the' binding.

-Pieter

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Lucas Hope <lucas.r.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I decided my new binding for common-lisp, cl-czmq is complete enough to be
> released.
>
> Here it is: https://github.com/lhope/cl-czmq
>
> I‘m working through the guide examples. They make a good set of test cases
> for a binding author. I’ve done through Chapter 2. The goal is to do them
> all, of course. Here they are:
> https://github.com/lhope/zguide/tree/master/examples/cl-czmq
>
> I chose CZMQ instead of ZMQ because CZMQ is cleaner, more fleshed out, and
> easier to port. A binding to CZMQ should also be easier to maintain. CZMQ is
> also more well used than a Common Lisp binding will ever be.
>
> There are two other bindings in Common Lisp. The one used in the zguide,
> cl-zmq, is abandoned. It only supports zmq 2.0. The more up to date one,
> lisp-zmq supports 2.2. This binding should support all zmq versions czmq
> supports. (Note that there does seem to have been efforts to fork and update
> cl-zmq to zmq3.x. Progress unknown.)
>
> I named this binding cl-czmq because it aptly describes the library, using
> lisp library conventions. I don‘t want to take either the other package
> names because that interferes with lisp’s package management. Also it comes
> across as rude.
>
> I would like this to become the CL binding in the guide and on zeromq.org.
> I'm willing to do more work to make that happen.
>
> I'd like it if any other ZMQ lispers want to reach out with respect to this
> (and of course any other comments are welcome! :-) ).
>
> Regards,
>
> Luke
>
>
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