Regarding the feedback, here are some notes I had when I've started writing a test suite before starting implementing cltl2 in ECL, maybe you'll find some of them useful. I plan to tackle this problem again after upcoming 16.2.0 release (with some refactor of the compiler interfces). I'll definetely look into the walkability document before doing so. http://ix.io/1Hbo On that note: I try to implement some clarifications in ECL. What would be useful is to have all extensions which can't be implemented as a user library in a common package (i.e CDR vs CDR-USER). I think this is not covered in any CDR (and having a feature that CDR-X is implemented doesn't give me much if I don't know in which package should I seek the new symbol). Best regards, Daniel On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 16:47 +0200, Michael Raskin wrote:
Hello. I want to try to do something about portability of universally present features, given that stndard revisions are extremely unlikely, and CDR process seems to be the best way to obtain a stable ID for some version of description.
As automatic code processing is a large part of Common Lisp identity as it is presented, and there is a small and easy to define chunk of functionality that is missing, I am preparing a CDR on portable code walking support.
Before I formally submit a CDR proposal, I want to try to get some feedback. The current version of the writeup I have is at: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mraskin/cdr-walkability/blob/master/walkabili...
Please comment on that proposal, here or via issues or maybe even merge requests. I will announce the link to the discussion in the ELS mailing list (as ELS conference seems to be the closest approximation to community discussion we have).
I considered including Trucler API as an option, but currently I doubt I am able to do it well: mixing a coherent API with multiple optional additions that are useful even as single functions is a harder task. I want to start somewhere.
Separately, if someone has some proposals on how to make CDR process used more — or matter more, please share. Probably on cdr- devel https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/cdr-devel
Thank you, goodbye Michael Raskin