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[admin] Commit rights for SLIME
by Helmut Eller 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Dear Common-Lisp.net Admins, could you give Geo Carncross <geocar(a)gmail.com> an account and add it to the slime group? Thanks. Helmut.

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[admin] I'd like to host a paper on your web site
by Daniel Weinreb 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi. My name is Dan Weinreb. I was one of the co-designers of Common Lisp, and co-founders of Symbolics. I am almost finished writing a paper called "Common Lisp Implementations: A Survey". I'd like to find a home for it on the web so that people can read it. Would it be possible to put it on your web site? Below, I have included the beginning of the paper so you can see what kind of thing it is. The text below is in "REST"; it will be automatically translated into HTML. Thank you. -- Dan Weinreb (dlw(a)alum.mit.edu) ----------------------------- ===================================== Common Lisp Implementations: A Survey ===================================== by Daniel Weinreb (dlw(a)alum.mit.edu) Version 1 There has been a new wave of interest in Common Lisp over the last few years. This paper is a November, 2007 survey of Common Lisp implementations that are currently being actively maintained. It also provides references to writings about why Lisp is interesting and important, Lisp textbooks, and useful Lisp resources including repositories of available libraries. I hope it will help you find the right implementation for your project or product. How did I pick the implementations to include in the survey? Research on the Internet showed that of all the implementations, some were full-fledged in their time, but have been abandoned for one reason or another, and some don't really count as being the Common Lisp dialect. There are ten real currently-maintained implementations. I judged this by seeing which implementations were currently being supported by prominent libraries and tools, by seeing whether there was active mail/news/etc. traffic about the implementation, by searching the web and asking around. Obviously this was something of a judgement call on my part. If I omitted any, it was certainly not on purpose. Please let me know if there are others. I did not run the implementations. I did not do any benchmark (performance) comparisons of runtime or compiler speed, and you'll find little in this paper about performance. I did not attempt to independently verify the answers to the survey. No organization endorses this paper. In particular, the web site on which you found this paper does not endorse it and bears no resposibility for its contents. I feel very confident that everybody who responded to the survey did so in good faith. Any errors are entirely my fault. Please send corrections to me. This survey only covers implementations of the Common Lisp dialect (ANSI Standard X3J13), not any other Lisp dialects, nor Scheme. The primary design work for the initial Common Lisp was mainly 1982, with the ANSI X3J13 standard following mainly in 1994, roughly speaking. Guy L. Steele Jr. was the editor of the initial specification. He, Dave Moon, Richard Gabriel, Scott Fahlman, and I were the primary designers, although of course the design drew very heavily on preceeding dialects. Papers about the history of Common Lisp are referenced below (see "Resources"). In my opinion, having multiple supported implementations of a language, rather than merely one canonical implementation, is a sign of a robust and vibrant language. There are many Java implementations (e.g. JRockit), many Python implementations (JPython, IronPython), and so on. These Common Lisp implementations do a very good job of meeting the official X3J13 language standard, and it's very easy, often no work at all, to make an application developed in one run in another if you stay within the defined language. These are the implementations, in alphabetical order: +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Name | a.k.a. | License | Platforms | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Allegro CL | | Commercial | Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Armed Bear CL | ABCL | GPL | Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | CMU CL | CMUCL | Open | Linux, Unix, Mac | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Clozure CL | OpenMCL | License | Linux, Unix, Mac | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Corman CL | | Commercial | Windows | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Embedded CL | ECL | LGPL | Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | GNU clisp | CLISP | GPL | Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | LispWorks | | Commercial | | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Scieneer CL | SCL | License | Linux, Unix | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ | Steel Bank CL | SBCL | License | Linux, Unix, Mac | +----------------+---------+------------+----------------------------+ My deepest thanks to everyone who responded to the survey: * Allegro CL: Kevin Layer * Armed Bear CL: Peter Graves * CMU CL: Raymond Toy * Clozure CL: Andrew Shalit * Embedded CL: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll * GNU clisp: Sam Steingold * LispWorks: Dave Fox * Scieneer CL: Douglas Crosher * Steel Bank CL: Nikodemus Siivola Thanks to Bruce Tate for permission to quote his paper. Special thanks to Pascal Costanza of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, for all his wise advice and other invaluable help. ---------

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[admin] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: 1 cl-xml-ticket moderator request(s) waiting]]
by Brad Anderson 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi, Erik Enge thought I should forward this to you to see if you can handle it. I am not sure I ever had a mailman admin password, so I could moderate this Trac ticket away. It's clearly spam. Erik had done these things for me in the past. Let me know if you need any more info. Cheers, BA -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: 1 cl-xml-ticket moderator request(s) waiting] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:08:37 -0500 From: Erik Enge <erik.enge(a)gmail.com> To: Brad Anderson <brad(a)sankatygroup.com> References: <4725E086.7090205(a)sankatygroup.com> Gosh, talk about taking forever to get back to you. Are you still getting that email? Please email admin@ - I no longer administrate common-lisp.net due to work commitments. Thanks, Erik. On Oct 29, 2007 8:30 AM, Brad Anderson <brad(a)sankatygroup.com> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > Getting this email every day, and I cannot recall my mailman password for > the mailing lists. Can you zap it for me? > > Cheers, > BA > > -------- Original Message -------- > Return-Path: <mailman-bounces(a)common-lisp.net> > X-Original-To: brad(a)sankatygroup.com > Delivered-To: brad(a)sankatygroup.com > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dsource.org > (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EC031C025 for <brad(a)sankatygroup.com>; Mon, 29 Oct > 2007 09:02:54 -0400 (EDT) > X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dsource.org > Received: from mail.dsource.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost > (mail.dsource.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id > 2wkExazcyAZp for <brad(a)sankatygroup.com>; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:02:43 -0400 > (EDT) > Received: from ipbos.baincapital.com (ipbos.baincapital.com > [131.239.52.138]) by mail.dsource.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7958731C021 > for <brad(a)sankatygroup.com>; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:02:40 -0400 (EDT) > X-sbrs: 3.5 > X-Original-Recipients: brad(a)sankaty.com > Received: from common-lisp.net ([80.68.86.115]) by ipbos.baincapital.com > with ESMTP; 29 Oct 2007 09:17:54 -0400 > Received: by common-lisp.net (Postfix) id BCF9E2B127; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 > 08:02:36 -0500 (EST) > Delivered-To: banderson(a)common-lisp.net > Received: by common-lisp.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8931C61044; > Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:02:35 -0500 (EST) > Received: from common-lisp.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by common-lisp.net > (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644395006C for <banderson(a)common-lisp.net>; Mon, 29 > Oct 2007 08:02:30 -0500 (EST) > X-Original-To: cl-xml-ticket-owner(a)common-lisp.net > Delivered-To: cl-xml-ticket-owner(a)common-lisp.net > Received: by common-lisp.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id AF819601D3; > Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:02:28 -0500 (EST) > Received: from common-lisp.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by common-lisp.net > (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3046405F for <cl-xml-ticket-owner(a)common-lisp.net>; > Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:02:20 -0500 (EST) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Subject: 1 cl-xml-ticket moderator request(s) waiting > From: cl-xml-ticket-bounces(a)common-lisp.net > To: cl-xml-ticket-owner(a)common-lisp.net > Message-ID: <mailman.98.1193662938.17621.cl-xml-ticket(a)common-lisp.net> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:02:18 -0500 > Precedence: bulk > X-BeenThere: cl-xml-ticket(a)common-lisp.net > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 > List-Id: cl-xml-ticket.common-lisp.net > X-List-Administrivia: yes > Sender: mailman-bounces(a)common-lisp.net > Errors-To: mailman-bounces(a)common-lisp.net > > The cl-xml-ticket(a)common-lisp.net mailing list has 1 request(s) > waiting for your consideration at: > > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/cl-xml-ticket > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. > > > Pending posts: > From: gthie_h(a)yahoo.com on Fri Oct 12 14:28:47 2007 > Subject: [SPAM] MISS MISS GEORGINA HANS > Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list > >

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[admin] plexippus-xpath
by Ivan Shvedunov 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hi. I've requested hosting for Plexippus XPath project some time ago. Thank you for registering the project. But what login info should be used to access it? Maybe I should send you my SSH public key?.. Thank you, Ivan

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[admin] thanks, and question regarding ssh access
by Peter Eddy 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi, First, thank you for approving my project: clouchdb, I'm eager to get everything set up. Regarding ssh access, I received passwords for the project email lists, but not for ssh access. Am I supposed to use my gpg key for ssh authentication, or should I have received ssh username/password information as well? I didn't see any information about what to expect in this regard in project info area of common-lisp.net. thanks, and I don't mean to rush anybody, I know this service is lower priority. - Peter Eddy

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[admin] added clouchdb; owned by peddy
by root＠common-lisp.net 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Add successful at 2007.11.19.22.57.

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[admin] Site down?
by John Collins 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

As far as I can tell, the only available documentation for cmucl is on your site. Is the outage long-term, or should I just be patient. Thanks much. John Collins University of Minnesota

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[admin] added plexippus-xpath; owned by ishvedunov
by root＠common-lisp.net 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Add successful at 2007.11.16.18.09.

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[admin] Project hosting request: clouchdb
by Peter Eddy 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hello, I would like to request hosting for a new open source Lisp project. The project is a Common Lisp interface to the CouchDB database (http://couchdb.org) Though CouchDB is accessed via a simple REST (HTTP) API, I think a certain amount of additional value can be provided by a library of Lisp functions which encapsulate the database API. For example, this project provides a translation of data into and out of CouchDB's wire data representation (Json strings), It is also hoped that this project will provide some degree of isolation from CouchDB API changes. The current state of the code is functional, but the API will likely change for the following reasons: 1) CouchDB itself is in a pre-alpha, version 0.7-ish, state and not yet feature complete. 2) CouchDB is, for me at least, a new kind of database. I expect my understanding of how it is used to evolve as I become more familiar with it, and I hope to reflect any new insight in the Lisp API, when appropriate. Project Information ------------------- My Name: Peter Eddy GPG Key: attached Project Name: clouchdb Libraries Used: Drakma, cl-json(json), parenscript License: LLGPL Currently no one else is involved in this project. Thank you! - Peter P.S. I know, the name is lousy :)

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[admin] project hosting request: Plexippus XPath
by Ivan Shvedunov 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi. I'd like to request hosting for Plexippus XPath (plexippus-xpath) project, an effort by me and David Lichteblau (maintainer of Closure XML) to build a Common Lisp XPath engine for use with CXML and other Lisp XML representations that later will be used to implement an XSLT engine. Maintainers for the project are: - me -- Ivan Shvedunov <ivan4th(a)gmail.com> -- gpg public key attached - David Lichteblau <david(a)lichteblau.com> The project will be released under an X11-style license. We would like to use darcs for this project. Thanks in advance, Ivan

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