[closer-announce] [ANN] New versions

[Pascal Costanza]

Hi,

New versions of MOP Feature Tests and Closer to MOP are available.  
MOP Feature Tests checks whether CLOS MOP features, as specified in  
"The Art of the Metaobject Protocol", are available in a given Common  
Lisp implementation. Closer to MOP provides a compatibility layer  
that irons out some of the incompatibilities across various CLOS MOP  
implementations.

Highlights of the new versions:

- A number of new implementations are now supported, including  
Allegro Common Lisp 7.0, CLisp 2.34, CMU CL 19b, LispWorks  
Professional 4.4.5, Macintosh Common Lisp 5.1, OpenMCL 0.14.3 and  
SBCL 0.9.3.

- The software is now available as a set of darcs repositories.

- Various fixes in Closer to MOP.

- Added a convenience method ensure-method.

- Switched to an MIT/BSD-style license.

I am using the Closer to MOP compatibility layer for my own software,  
which consists of non-trivial extensions of CLOS. This has led to  
overall improvements of stability.

See the project website at http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/ for  
further details.


Cheers,
Pascal

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