[Gardeners] CLOCC, CCLAN, vn-cclan

[Peter Seibel]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 12:24 AM, John Connors wrote:

>
> To contiune talking to myself in public: what I suggest is that  
> port in the
> CLOCC is made into an asdf-installable package, given a nice, shiny  
> homepage of
> it's own, and given an entry in the FAQ, so that there is a  
> canonical and
> in-newbie reach answer "how do I portably do x" - "well, you asdf- 
> install port
> and call y".

That sounds like an excellent code revival project. Feel free to set  
up a project page and champion it. You might also want to look at  
other code bases that have portability layers, such as the ACL-COMPAT  
in Portable Allegro Serve and the code in SLIME (SWANK actually).  
Just make sure you keep track of licensing issues--PORT is under LGPL  
or GPL if I recall correctly while ACL-COMPAT is probably LLGPL and  
the SWANK code, again IIRC, BSD.

-Peter

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