[Gardeners] Project Proposal: Standardized Utility Library

[Sean Ross]

On 6/8/06, Jack Unrue <jdunrue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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


Archive seems to has superseded tar.lisp and supports sbcl and lispworks
(only on linux though AFAICT)
My personal preference would be to support both tarballs and zip files.

Cheers,
 Sean.
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