[Gardeners] Project Proposal: Standardized Utility Library

[Jack Unrue]

On 6/7/06, I wrote:
>
> [2] For example, I think it's not so much the GNU tar and gz file formats
>       that are problematic, but rather that AFAIK there are no portable
>       Lisp implementations of those, hence asdf-install on Windows requires
>       cygwin or similar compatibilty layer. One can debate the technical
>       merits of various archive formats all day long, but the fact is that
>       tar.gz is an established precedent as far as asdf-install is concerned.

I have subsequently become less ignorant about what's available:

http://common-lisp.net/project/zlib/
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~froydnj/lisp/tar.lisp

I haven't investigated how complete either of those are; comments in
the tar.lisp file indicates that it only works on SBCL at this point.

-- 
Jack Unrue