[Gardeners] CL-XML and SBCL

[Brad Anderson]

Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> "Reporting back to the group" is no substitute for "reporting to the 
> author".  James Anderson has been very helpful 

Actually, he replied, and you are correct, he's helpful.  I was of the 
mind to not bother the author with my learning curve, but now I'm glad I 
copied him on the first mail.

> and usually loading 
> CL-XML just involves loading
> 
>     /your/path/to/cl-xml/code/load.lisp
> 
> ...

after spending some time back on this path, I was able to get further. 
The tests aren't running, but the lib loaded.


> Having tried before to change the load machinery of CL-XML (and decided 
> it was a time sink) I would just advise to use it "as is".  Loading the 
> library is easy enough (although I have not tried it with the latest 
> SBCL), and, IMHO, a much bigger priority for CL-XML (and a much more 
> difficult one) is to improve its documentation.

I now agree, and will change my Gardeners project to documentation...

Thanks