[qitab-devel] Re: Quepasa?

[Derek Davies]

Good suggestions, thanks.  I strongly agree about the doc.  There are 
various other featurey things on my list too.

About utilities and macros:  don't know if you looked closely, but they 
are not just copies of what was in quux in those files in the tarball -- 
I tried to hand pick only what was needed.  In hand-picking I sometimes 
(undisciplinedly) picked stuff as a larger group, with some of the group 
not actually needed, but that went together with what was needed.  So 
it's more of a mess, but maybe more to the point that you might imagine 
:/  I think we can sort that out when more is added to qitab, but until 
then I'm not super motivated about it right now.  As I clean up more of 
quepasa that will probably change.

On 01/20/2014 10:05 PM, Faré wrote:
> Dear Derek,
>
> congratulations for releasing Quepasa!
> https://github.com/qitab/qitab/
>
> Some remarks:
>
> * macros and utilities probably have to be moved out of quepasa into
> the rest of qitab, and split into units that make more sense. Maybe
> you should extract those specific macros that you're using and define
> just these, in their own file. Maybe you should be using utilities in
> alexandria and/or poiu where they exist, instead of incompatible the
> quux variants, where applicable. We should avoid multiplying entities,
> this way. For the sake of compatibility, we could define a
> backward-compatibility package where quux primitives are defined in
> terms of more standard things, where they exist. You don't need to do
> all that; still, if you can identify which subset of quux macros and
> utilities you're using, it's a good idea to define a new library that
> provides just that, and put it in many files under, say,
> qitab/utility/
>
> * I see you're not using the newfangled package-system thingie. You
> don't have to; nevertheless, if you start using it, you may grow to
> liking it.
>
> * When you have time, the most urgent is probably more documentation.
>
> * You may want to create a page on cliki.net, maybe on cl-user.net,
> and maybe announce on comp.lang.lisp or some blog or public feed.
>
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