[Gardeners] A batteries package for Common Lisp?

[Maciek Pasternacki]

On Setting Orange, The Aftermath 53, 3172 YOLD, Brad Beveridge wrote:

> One of the catch phrases of Python is that it comes with "batteries
> included".  About the last thing that a standard Common Lisp
> implementation can be accused of is that it comes with all the
> trimmings.  There are certainly plenty of really nice libraries out
> there, but not in the same organised way as Python.

Good point.

> I propose that we clone this page http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html,
> and emulate as much as possible.
> The CL-Batteries should be installable from ASDF-install.  It should
> have good documentation (again, look to the Python example), and
> should be portable across as many implementations as possible - though
> I suggest we choose an implementation to work to first.
>
> Thoughts?

Why clone libraries which are tuned to other language?  Why emulate
Python in Lisp?

CL-Batteries as such, OTOH, seems to be a Good Idea.  It might be a
dependency-only package that would pull commonly used libraries and
save users effort of downloading each one separately (and/or
discovering them at all).  I'd start with Iterate, CL-PPCRE, Anaphora
and/or Arnesi (last one isn't a no-brainer, but I find it *very*
usable), SPLIT-SEQUENCE, SLIME, CL-FAD, trivial-sockets, trivial-http,
bordeaux-threads, puri, net-telent-date, maybe some MOP compatibility
layer... that's what I have currently in mind, list should probably be
a lot longer.

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