equwal/clapt

Archived: generate SBCL cores for lots of libraries.

Archived. Use roswell instead.

Clapt, having been clapt into existence, is the apt CL package manager.

Clapt

A package managing client. Keep a list of packages efficiently installed.

Install

We need to know which packages are needed, and whether they are from quicklisp.

1. (asdf:load-system :clapt)
2. (clapt:install). SBCL will save and die.

By default clapt will try to overwrite your installed core file. This may require root access on your system; alternatively, try (clapt:install :core "path-to-your-core") for a different core.

Adding packages

Call clapt:add with the manager and packages. Current managers are :asdf and :quicklisp.

Updating packages

(clapt:update)

Rationale

Loading a lot of packages from a script is slow, and having to reload the image manually on every update is too laborious. A simple package manager should be able to do all of that.

Alternatives

• Just write an init script for your lisp like:

(ql:quickload :petalisp)
(ql:quickload :coleslaw)
;;; ... etc.

This is fine if the number of packages is low. Eventually it can start to take too long.

• Store your core manually.
  1. Write a script like the one above.
  2. load it.
  3. Save your core. SBCL has sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die for this.
  4. Start your lisp with =sbcl –core “path/to/core”= or similar.

This is essentially what this script does, but lacks backups and needs to be done every time the lisp is updated.

• clpm is another attempt at the same, and has the benefit of removing itself from the core. It has dependencies, and is a bit involved to use.

Supported Systems

Looking to increase the number of items here:

• SUPPORTED:
  • SBCL
• TO BE SUPPORTED:
  • Clisp
  • CCL

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Contributing

See the TODO file for ideas

License

GNU GPL v3