[pro] Langutils

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi Zach,


> > But I agree that library quality / support are important parts of
> > library discovery: if you don't know which ones are generally thought
> > of as good, or which ones have an active support network, how can you
> > ever choose between them? Solving the library discovery problem is
> > probably rather people-intensive, which I imagine is why nobody's done
> > it. I'm told other languages suffer from this too.
>
> I think quickdocs.org helps. I would also like to see some mechanism for
> incorporating user feedback (e.g. "I tried this library on LispWorks and
> it keeps crashing" or "The documentation doesn't match the code any
> more" or "This is great, it solved my problem and it's really fast") and
> rating. Building such a thing would take a generous expenditure of time
> and effort, so I understand why it hasn't popped into existence already.

Do you also see a role for cl-test-grid here, which tests quicklisp
packaged libraries on a large number of platforms and may thus provide
potential users with the insights they need for their platforms?

Bye,


Erik.
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