[cclan-list] "cclan news": last chance to proofread

[Daniel B. <da...@te...>]

This goes to c.l.l at 14:30 GMT.  Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

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[ cCLan News is a semi-regular update of news and updated packages for
  the Comprehensive Common Lisp Archive Network.  It is currently posted
  to comp.lang.lisp and to ccl...@li... ]

* This issue:

** Infrastructure
** Currently debated
** New/updated packages

* Infrastructure

cCLan now has a web site, bug tracker, archive mirror and mailing
lists at Sourceforge (http://cclan.sourceforge.net/).  

The bug tracker can be used for any bugs, enhancement requests or
wishlist suggestions for infrastructure or included packages: bug
reports will be fed upstream to original package maintainers if they
look like upstream bugs.

The mailing lists are ccl...@li... for general
discussion and ccl...@li... for announcements.
Please subscribe to either or both if you're interested.

The mirror at ftp.linux.org.uk is now also operational.  All of these
mirrors are apt-gettable archives for Debian users.

If you'd like to provide another mirror, see the instructions on the
Sourceforge page at http://cclan.sourceforge.net/

* Currently debated

There are several more-or-less active threads on the cclan-list ...

** Other packaging systems

Craig Brozefsky's "CCLAN Host Standard" and forthcoming related
specifications decouple the various bits of Common Lisp Controller so
that relevant parts of it can be supported in environments where the
whole of it is not applicable.

This is a first step to, among other things, supporting more package
systems than Debian, and adding "user-specific" packages to the system

** Inline documentation

A proposal was made for 'Python-like' inline documentation in modules,
using a primarily plain-text format with certain conventions that can
be turned into reasonably pleasant HTML or other output formats.

We can always use help with tools and words on this one

** CVS directories in packages

Should packages include the CVS directories so that sources can be
updated directly from upstream?  The debate goes on (mostly on the
cliki page)



* New/updated packages in archive

  cl-binary-types_0.76-1.dsc

New upstream version, plus documentation changes

  cl-db-sockets_0.43.dsc

New to cCLan - BSD socket API glue for CMUCL and SBCL

  clocc-metering_19940125-5.dsc

SBCL-related fixes and inclusion of documentation.

  clocc-port_0.1-20010609.dsc

Included upstream bug fixes for DEFCONST behaviour, GC and QUIT
support in SBCL, and some other minor issues.

Updated readme and added a manual-page.

  cl-partition_20010609.dsc

This is a distribution of the reference implementation of partition
(see posts on comp.lang.lisp). The exact behaviour has not been
finalized yet (again, see c.l.l passim) but it is being distributed so
that people can try it and offer feedback.

  cl-xptest_0.1-4.dsc

More documentation, and a man page.

  common-lisp-controller_1.6.3.dsc 

Bugfixes for better SBCL support

  langband_0.0.11-6.dsc

Moved around some files and made a virtual package langband-variant.

  sbcl_0.6.12.21-5.dsc

New upstream snapshot with several pathname-related and other bugs fixed


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