[drakma-devel] New releases 0.10.3 (Drakma) and 0.4.1 (Chunga)

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:29:55 -0700 (PDT), Ross Jekel <ross at sourcelabs.com> wrote:

> I didn't notice any need for this in FLEXI-STREAMS. Using grep it
> looks like the only place it interns is in the asd file:
>
> (funcall (intern (symbol-name :run-tests)
>                    (find-package :flexi-streams-test)))
>
> And this method of interning a symbol-name is portable in all
> casemodes as long as the cases of the typed in :run-tests and
> function definition name match.
>
> Is there something I'm missing?

Look at the start of packages.lisp.

> Thanks so much for creating this library. AServe's client does not
> use streams, which is annoying, and doesn't current support chunking
> with https requests (not a blocker because I could revert to
> http/1.0, but...). In a shop that is mostly Java programmers, you
> saved me from having to apologize for some embarrassingly silly
> work-arounds using the other library. I just recently replaced
> do-http-request from Aserve with http-request from Drakma in soap
> calls and it works great.

Thanks for the feedback, that's good to hear!

Cheers,
Edi.