From: Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...> - 2011-03-16 11:20:52
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Attached SB-HTTP, a minimal HTTP client library extracted from ASDF-INSTALL. All it provides is SB-HTTP:OPEN-HTTP-STREAM. I would like to * add this (possibly renaming it SB-NET as a catchall for other higher-level nettools) as a contrib, so that Quicklisp bootstrapping can be as trivial as: (load (sb-http:open-http-stream "http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp" :external-format :latin-1))) NOTE: Xach has mentioned planning on moving to HTTPS-only for the bootstrap, so this may turn out to be a shortlived joy unless someone has more time and energy than I do. * kill ASDF-INSTALL and point out Quicklisp in documentation and on our website--regardless of the fate of SB-HTTP/SB-NET. Cheers, -- Nikodemus |