[Ecls-list] Further integration between quicklisp and ECL

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>
>     I can appreciate the desire for Lisp systems to have some form of
>     Quicklisp integration, but I am reluctant to see divergence of
>     instructions like this. I really like that the instructions for everyone
>     are the same, instead of "On ECL, use (require :ecl-quicklisp),
>     otherwise on XYCL, use (require :xy-quicklisp), otherwise download and
>     load this file..." Same with instructions for loading things. "If you're
>     on ECL, use REQUIRE, otherwise use QL:QUICKLOAD, otherwise..."
>
> Your instructions really do not change, they continue to work so what is the problem?

People will blog about how they used (require :ecl-quicklisp) in ecl, newbies
will complain that it doesn't work (on their implementation), then may
blog about the social problems of #lisp or cll…


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