[Gardeners] wiki.alu.org and Kiwi

[Peter Seibel]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Erik Enge wrote:

> On 2/25/06, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
>> So we did get the source to Kiwi. If folks have specific ideas for
>> improvements to be made, please set up a project page and start
>> describing them.
>
> Peter, do you have the current sources for Kiwi?

I have a copy of the sources that Carl Shapiro sent me some time ago.  
I've even put them into a semi-public svn repo. However Carl didn't  
want them made widely public just yet.

> Are you the maintainer of Kiwi?  Who accepts/rejects patches?  What is
> its license?

I am not the maintainer. Carl Shapiro is probably the person to talk  
to as he runs the wiki.alu.org site and wrote a good chunk (with some  
friend of his) of Kiwi. I think the license is BSD but I can't find a  
license file anywhere in the sources I have.

> I would like to see this source code released.  Why don't we start a
> common-lisp.net project?

You should talk to Carl. I think a couple patches have been made to  
the sources I have (by a couple folks who expressed interest in  
hacking on it and to whom I gave access to the svn repo I set up.) I  
think most of those had to do with reducing (maybe even removing)  
dependencies on Allegro. I don't know if Carl and co. have been  
hacking on their version or not (which they keep--as far as I know-- 
in a private p4 repo.) I'd be happy to shut down my svn repo if you  
want to put it up at c.l.net. That'd actually be my preference since  
I'm sure you're much better at running publically available svn repos  
than I am. But you should get in touch with Carl to see about folding  
in any changes they may have made since I got the source drop from  
him back in January.

-Peter

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