[cl-utilities-devel] cl-utilities status and plans

[Joao Galamba]

Hi Peter and All,

First of all, thanks for setting up and developing this project.  Being a newbie lisper and already having syntoms of NIH sindrome, regrettably I only found  about cl-utilities a few weeks ago and so still haven't had a chance to use it in my own projects. 

Like (most probably) every other lisp programmer, I already have my own (very large) collection of utilities. Although, I collected most of them from external resources (Graham's OnLisp and ANSI CL, Seibel's PCL, come to mind) I still feel a bit suspicious about those utilities in terms of correctness, robustness, performance and generalization. In that respect cl-utilities seems much more interesting and trustworthy.

So, what's cl-utilities current status? Is it being maintained/developed? What new utilities do you plan to introduce (I can think of a few)? And what is the criteria? Do you plan to merge it with another project? 

Cheers,
Joao Galamba