[Gardeners] Project Proposal: Standardized Utility Library

Larry Clapp larry at theclapp.org
Tue Jun 6 08:59:19 CDT 2006


On 2006-06-05, Aleksandr Simma wrote:
> +1 on the project; I think it's a great idea.  I think I will be
> able to help out with the project.  However, the real trick is
> getting adoption and use by the public; while I think that including
> it in Lispbox will make a lot of newbees use it and thus, give the
> project a good boost, it would be great if we could somehow get the
> prolific package contributors to take advantage of this project.
>
> So if you already have a decent amount of experience in Lisp and the
> resulting accumilated set of macros and helper functions, what would
> it take for you to start using the common library instead of your
> own homebrewed solutions?

For any library, Lisp or not, I like to see documentation, and test
cases.  (And it's handy if the library does what I want to do, too!
:)

-- Larry




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