[admin] Project application: Alexandria

[Erik Enge]

On it.

On 10/15/06, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
> Name: Alexandria
> Licence: Public domain / 1-clause MIT
> Members: nsiivola, alendvai, mbaringer, rstrandh
> Repository: svn
> Trac: yes
> Description:
> ---
> Alexandria is a project and a library.
>
> As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and
> improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own
> idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually
> means is open to debate, but each project member has a veto on all
> project activities, so a degree of conservativism is inevitable.
>
> As a library Alexandria is one of the means by which the project
> strives for its goals. Alexandia is a collection of portable Public
> Domain utilities that meet the following constraints:
>
>  * Utilities, not extensions: Alexandria will not contain conceptual
>    extensions to Common Lisp, instead limiting itself to tools and
>    utilities that fit well within the framework of standard ANSI
>    Common Lisp. Test-frameworks, system definitions, logging
>    facilities, serialization layers, etc. are all outside the scope of
>    Alexandria as a library, though well within the scope of Alexandria
>    as a project.
>
>  * Conservative: Alexandria limits itself to what project members
>    consider conservative utilities. Alexandria does not and will not
>    include anaphoric constructs, loop-like binding macros, etc.
>
>  * Portable: Alexandria limits itself to portable parts of Common
>    Lisp. Even apparently conservative and usefull functions remain
>    outside the scope of Alexandria if they cannot be implemented
>    portably. Portability is here defined as portable within a
>    conforming implementation: implementation bugs are not considered
>    portability issues.
>
>  * Team player: Alexandria will not (initially, at least) subsume
>    or provide functionality for which good-quality special-purpose
>    packages exist, like SPLIT-SEQUENCE. Instead, third party packages
>    such as that may be "blessed".
> ---
> Cheers,
>
>   -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
>                    Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."
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