Dear lispers,

I've just released cl-launch 4.0.0: so you can invoke CL programs from the command-line.

My classic demo for cl-launch is as follows:

for l in allegro ccl clisp sbcl ecl lispworks abcl cmucl xcl gcl ; do cl-launch -l $l -i '(format t "'$l' ~S ~%" `#5(1 ,@`(2 3)))' 2>&1 | grep "^$l " ; done

As compared to the cl-launch 3 series, cl-launch 4.0.0: * cl-launch now accepts Unix scripting language invocation: cl-launch [options...] script [arguments...] * Therefore cl-launch can be used as a script interpreter: #!/usr/bin/cl No more need for -X ... -- options anymore (still kept for compatibility). * cl-launch has a more unrestricted model for building software, more like buildapp, executing build commands in sequence, rather than having a fixed skeleton of one file then one system. cl --lisp sbcl --require sb-posix --system foo --file file.lisp --eval '(some form)' --output myscript.sh cl --lisp sbcl --require sb-posix --system foo --file file.lisp --eval '(some form)' --output mybinary --dump '!' * cl-launch accepts --eval --load --load-system --entry like buildapp, in addition to its own --restart --init --print --write, etc. * cl-launch accepts an argument starting with an open parenthesis in any position as if it were following a --print. * cl-launch can now use quicklisp * cl-launch was tweaked to work better on ABCL, GCL, ECL

cl-launch 4 is thus mostly compatible with cl-launch 3 and earlier, but: * it requires asdf 3.0.1 or later to be provided by your implementation, configured to be found by an earlier asdf provided by your implementation, or in ~/cl/asdf/ or /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-asdf/ * cl-launch used to have a more constrained model for building software with only one --file and one --system; if you were relying on that and/or on putting the --file after the --system, you will suffer from the incompatibility.

PS: there is already a 4.0.0.1 for LispWorks, which requires a patch just pushed to ASDF 3.1.0.78.

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