[cl-containers-devel] cl-containers

[William Halliburton]

Yay for, "The One Container Library to Rule Them All".

I'd be up to helping as needed.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Gary and cl-containers developers,
>
> Eric O'Connor and I are a bit sick of the situation
> regarding data-structure libraries in CL.
> There are tens of implementation of any given implemented data-structure,
> most of them of less-than-stellar quality,
> all the while plenty of useful data-structures are not implemented at all.
> And it's a huge pain any time one wants to find a library
> (though the pain is somewhat alleviated by quicklisp).
>
> Therefore, Eric and I are considering doing some work of consolidation
> around CL datastructure libraries.
> Our goal is to have one library that provides all the interfaces
> (generic functions, macros) to all the datastructures that anyone may want,
> then separate libraries to implement these interfaces.
> For compatibility, these could be distributed as part of the same tarball.
>
> Separately (or not), we'd develop some library for pure datastructures
> that would try to maintain some kind of
> API coherence with the stateful variants.
>
> Your cl-containers looks like
> the best-factored of the existing datastructure libraries,
> as far as stateful algorithms go. Are you still maintaining it?
> Are you accepting patches and/or co-maintainers who would perform some
> surgery
> on the library to split it into interface and implementations,
> and add implementations to missing datastructures (such as fibonacci
> heaps),
> and add thread-safe variants of various datastructures, etc.
> All the while we'd seek to preserve backwards compatibility.
>
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