[admin] A new project called CL-Carbon

[Mario S. Mommer]

Hi,

David Steuber <david at david-steuber.com> writes:
> I would like to create a new project called CL-Carbon to be hosted on
> your server.  CL-Carbon is intended to be a CLOS application framework
> that wraps the Carbon APIs for OS X and usable with OpenMCL.  Porting
> to other Lisps may be done as resources allow.  SBCL for example would
> be a nice target when it supports threads and callbacks on OS X.
> CL-Carbon overcomes a current technical limitation on distribution of
> Cocoa based applications using OpenMCL.  Unlike a Cocoa app, a Carbon
> app does not need to be recompiled when the OS is upgraded by a patch
> release via Software Update.  A current application I have
> available[1] has been reported to run under Tiger without recompile.
> It was developed under Panther and not recompiled since 10.3.8.  I am
> now running 10.3.9.  Another benefit seems to be better application
> performance.  Current Cocoa applications under OpenMCL appear to be
> slow.
>
> CL-Carbon should provide the interested user with a way to build OS X
> applications in Lisp that are lightweight and fast.  By dealing with
> certain boiler plate issues, development should be reasonably quick.
> This is an alternative to Cocoa rather than a replacement.

Looks good!

> I am considering the LLGPL license for this project.

I have to insist you make up your mind first :-)

Regards,

        Mario.