Good suggestions, thanks. I strongly agree about the doc. There are various other featurey things on my list too. About utilities and macros: don't know if you looked closely, but they are not just copies of what was in quux in those files in the tarball -- I tried to hand pick only what was needed. In hand-picking I sometimes (undisciplinedly) picked stuff as a larger group, with some of the group not actually needed, but that went together with what was needed. So it's more of a mess, but maybe more to the point that you might imagine :/ I think we can sort that out when more is added to qitab, but until then I'm not super motivated about it right now. As I clean up more of quepasa that will probably change. On 01/20/2014 10:05 PM, Faré wrote:
Dear Derek,
congratulations for releasing Quepasa! https://github.com/qitab/qitab/
Some remarks:
* macros and utilities probably have to be moved out of quepasa into the rest of qitab, and split into units that make more sense. Maybe you should extract those specific macros that you're using and define just these, in their own file. Maybe you should be using utilities in alexandria and/or poiu where they exist, instead of incompatible the quux variants, where applicable. We should avoid multiplying entities, this way. For the sake of compatibility, we could define a backward-compatibility package where quux primitives are defined in terms of more standard things, where they exist. You don't need to do all that; still, if you can identify which subset of quux macros and utilities you're using, it's a good idea to define a new library that provides just that, and put it in many files under, say, qitab/utility/
* I see you're not using the newfangled package-system thingie. You don't have to; nevertheless, if you start using it, you may grow to liking it.
* When you have time, the most urgent is probably more documentation.
* You may want to create a page on cliki.net, maybe on cl-user.net, and maybe announce on comp.lang.lisp or some blog or public feed.
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