I posted this to Stack Overflow but was hoping for more input.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51638864/common-lisp-style-multiple-packages-in-same-repo


May I get recommendations or links to representative code repositories with good style for multiple related Common Lisp packages, please?

For instance, consider a high-level workflow library with accompanying lower-level API, each in its own CL package but same git repo due to synchronized releases.

Each system (*.asd file) isolates tests and may be invoked using:

(asdf:test-system foo :force t)

Separate systems may be built via make, which definitely helps isolate SBCL code-coverage reports.

Some users of the library may only want to load the lower-level API. For simplifying dependencies for those using higher-level API, it seems best to keep everything bundled in one repo. Any revision to one library would likely require updating all for the same release.

I currently have a single directory tree with a subdirectory for each CL package. There's a top-level Makefile plus one in each subdirectory that the library maintain would use. The top-level also contains symbolic links for .asd files pointing into relevant subdirectories. (It's a library deeply dependent upon POSIX calls via uiop-posix, so it's only applicable on an OS with sym-links.)

This seems to be an issue at large considering issue #1 for Quicklisp-docs [0].

Found nothing relevant in Google's CL style guide [1], State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem, 2015 [2], Edi's CL Recipes [3] or Lisp-lang [4]. Browsing repos seem to have quite a mix of styles.

Repo to be fixed: https://gitlab.com/dpezely/cl-mmap
(commit a23bd88d of 2018-07-14; release will be tagged when fixed)

Thanks,
  -Daniel