Announcing Mudballs

 This post is to announce the release of Mudballs, a collection of Common Lisp code for managing systems.  It is currently in an early stage of development and still has a long way to go but is currently able to compile,  load, document, download and install systems across Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Mudballs supports the following implementations 

• Lispworks on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.
  
• SBCL on Mac OSX and Linux.
• CMUCL on Mac OSX and Linux.
• CLISP on Linux and Windows (Mac OSX as well provided  you have FFI).
• ClozureCL/OpenMCL on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.
• AllegroCL on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.

 

 As it currently stands it is not ASDF compatible (not ideal, I know) but ASDF support is planned for the future. It is available from http://mudballs.com  which contains enough information to get the intrepid lisper on his or  her way.

 

 As a small taste, the following is now possible from a freshly installed Lisp with Mudballs loaded.

> (mb:install :hunchentoot)
> (hunchentoot:start-server :port 8080)

P.S.  Prizes for anyone that can come up with a logo which doesn't look like a pile of excrement.

asdf-install & Windows

Thanks to Nate's latest release of archive we can now use asdf-install on Windows
without resorting to cygwin or gnu-tar. Just add the following to your .asdf-install.

(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :gzip-stream)
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :archive :version "0.6")

(defun asdf-install-extractor (to-dir tarball)
(let ((name nil))
  (gzip-stream:with-open-gzip-file (ins tarball)
    (archive:with-open-archive (archive ins)
      (let ((*default-pathname-defaults* (pathname to-dir)))
        (archive:do-archive-entries (entry archive name)
          (archive:extract-entry archive entry)
          (unless name (setf name (archive:name entry)))))))
  ;; we use string instead of namestring because
  ;; asdf-install searches for /'s and not \'s
  ;; which will break on windows
  (string name)))

(push 'asdf-install-extractor asdf-install:*tar-extractors*)

You will still get an error along the lines of
"'gpg' is not recognized as an internal or external command,"
but select the continue restart and all should be fine and dandy.


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This post is courtesy of lispworks(5.0.2), gzip-stream(0.1), asdf-install(0.5.5) and archive(0.6).