portaCL: Help Making CL Portability Libraries
Quite possibly the most pointless lisp library ever created.
What portaCL Does
portaCL offers several features:
- ASDF Enhancements
- Adds the ability to specify an ASDF component (file or module) as being implementation-specific, rather than including a long list of reader conditionals to select the proper file.
- Extensible Feature Tests
- Have you ever wished reader conditionals were turing complete? Well, now they can be! (Also great for anyone missing FEXPRs.)
- Feature-expression Control Flow
- Do you use reader conditionals without referring to implementation-specific symbols in the skipped forms? Do you get tired of ending with #-(or a b c d) (error "not implemented")? Do you not mind doing essentially the same thing two different ways? If so, feature-cond may be for you!
Where to Get portaCL
You can download the latest version of portaCL as a gzipped tarball
or check it out from the darcs repository. It is also asdf-installable in theory; provided you account for the lack of a page on cliki and have my public key.
How to Use portaCL
see notes.org in the source, or check out some examples of existing lisp portability libraries post-conversion.
My e-mail address is pix@kepibu.org. Questions, comments, patches, and beratings are all welcome, but I'm not always a speedy respondent.