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dieggsy • yesterday at 2:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You may already know of these, but for others curious:

I'm also not a huge fan of quicklisp, though bundles[0] made it a little more bearable for me. You may also consider vend[1], ocicl[2] (heavily AI-assisted recently), or qlot[3].

  [0] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/bundles.html
  [1] https://github.com/fosskers/vend
  [2] https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl
  [3] https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot
For macroexpansion, SLIME and SLY have macrostep functionality that lets you expand macros in place, which has helped me immensely on more than one occasion, though you can also manually expand with macroexpand.

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kodoman • yesterday at 2:56 PM

Thank you for this, I knew only of ocicl and have only been using macro expand in the repl, will have to try macrostep.

My work flow for packaging is very hacky at the moment, I have sbcl install on the host but mostly for developing I run in a podman container and download repos of libraries as I need them and then mount them in a volume and also mount a link farm to load all the asdf systems and that is set up by the initialization script and starts swank and any other initialization needed. probably ocicl does a lot of what I want but for a particular things I was doing I was I also wanted to modify a library so it evolved like this it might be a little insane but new to common lisp development so might be bad.