User-configurable quicklisp directory location

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User-configurable quicklisp directory location

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Note for those who don't have the quicklisp directory at the top-level of their home directory (in a "non-standard" location):

Since version 0.3, clhs-use-local.el should work as long as it's at the top-level of the quicklisp directory, regardless of where the quicklisp directory itself is located.

The Common Lisp part of the clhs wrapper, which among other things can perform installation or upgrade of clhs-use-local.el for you, is still completely in the "quicklisp directory at top-level of home directory" mindset as of version 0.5.

However, you can workaround this to some extent by manually copying clhs-use-local.el from the clhs wrapper directory into the top-level of your quicklisp directory, wherever it might be. The (load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/clhs-use-local.el") t) line in .emacs must of course be updated to reflect this quicklisp directory location.

You should find the bundled clhs-use-local.el at this location after (ql:quickload "clhs"):
[...]/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/clhs-DATE-http/clhs-use-local.el
Or well, here it is for version 0.5: https://github.com/Hexstream/clhs/blob/v0.5/clhs-use-local.el

I realize this is not the pinnacle of user-friendliness (to put it mildly) and expect to fix this next month, in time for the October Quicklisp dist.

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Version 0.6 of the wrapper now supports user-configurable quicklisp directory location with *quicklisp-directory*.

This should be available in the October Quicklisp dist.