Hi,
I would like to create a new project called CL-Carbon to be hosted on your server. CL-Carbon is intended to be a CLOS application framework that wraps the Carbon APIs for OS X and usable with OpenMCL. Porting to other Lisps may be done as resources allow. SBCL for example would be a nice target when it supports threads and callbacks on OS X. CL-Carbon overcomes a current technical limitation on distribution of Cocoa based applications using OpenMCL. Unlike a Cocoa app, a Carbon app does not need to be recompiled when the OS is upgraded by a patch release via Software Update. A current application I have available[1] has been reported to run under Tiger without recompile. It was developed under Panther and not recompiled since 10.3.8. I am now running 10.3.9. Another benefit seems to be better application performance. Current Cocoa applications under OpenMCL appear to be slow.
CL-Carbon should provide the interested user with a way to build OS X applications in Lisp that are lightweight and fast. By dealing with certain boiler plate issues, development should be reasonably quick. This is an alternative to Cocoa rather than a replacement.
I am considering the LLGPL license for this project.
[1] To see a demonstration of CL-Carbon in action, along with the current state of the Lisp code, visit:
http://www.david-steuber.com/Lisp/OSX/Carbon/
In addition to the article describing Carbon programming in Lisp, there is a link to an OS X dmg file that contains both the running application and source code.
Thank you for your consideration,
David Steuber.