Re: vn-cclan package naming conventions and repository organization

Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nikodemus Siivola <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Daniel Barlow wrote:
>
>> Who gets the "md5" package?
>
> I think some bit of control is good. I think that packages in this respect
> can be split into two categories:
>
>  * Those for which canonical cclan versions make sense. Like md5.
>    I mean, how many alternative md5 packages do you think we need?

Maybe several.  One optimized for CLISP will probably look fairly
different from one optimized for SBCL, and it's fairly unlikely that
one person will want to maintain them both.

Christophe
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