CLISP Win32 Installer

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

Now that I have more time, I would like to try adding some features to the
current CLISP win32 installer. Specifically, it might be nice if the
installer also made it easier to get various libraries on a new CLISP
installation. ASDF is the obvious library utility to include with CLISP, and
it would be fairly easy to make the installer create a .clisprc.lisp file to
make configuration easier. But I am not sure what else I might include. I
would like to keep the installer size as small as possible, so including
libraries in the installer would be undesirable. I can include asdf-install,
but I don't use it myself and I understand it requires installing both gnuPG
and cygwin in order to run properly. So either we can leave the actual
installation of libraries to the user or create a system like the Lisp
Starter Pack that will download and install files when running the
installer. (I don't know if NSIS has support for downloading files or not,
so this may require running a lisp script at install time. I may be able to
ask the author of the Lisp Starter Pack for suggestions on writing such
code, but it looks like it could be pretty difficult, especially seeing as I
haven't really written code to download files before.)

Anyways, I would like to know what people think should be included in an
enhanced CLISP installer. I would appreciate any hints or suggestions anyone
has to offer. Thanks.

-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank
Herbert