cl-utilities

A collection of semi-standard utilities

Introduction

On Cliki.net, there is a collection of Common Lisp Utilities, things that everybody writes since they're not part of the official standard. There are some very useful things there; the only problems are that they aren't implemented as well as you'd like (some aren't implemented at all) and they aren't conveniently packaged and maintained. It takes quite a bit of work to carefully implement utilities for common use, commented and documented, with error checking placed everywhere some dumb user might make a mistake.

The CLRFI process is a lot better thought out, and will probably produce better standards than informal discussion on a Wiki, but it has one problem: at the time of this writing, it's not doing anything yet. Until the CLRFI process gets going, I think that a high-quality collection of the informal standards on Cliki is a valuable thing to have. It's here, and it's called cl-utilities.

Mailing Lists

Manual

The latest version of the cl-utilities manual is available online. It is also included with the release.

Download

The latest release is cl-utilities-latest.tar.gz, and the signature is cl-utilities-latest.tar.gz.asc

If you want to see older releases, or find out what release is current, you can take a look at the FTP directory with all the releases in it.

CVS

You can browse our CVS repository or download the current development tree via anonymous cvs.

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