Automated package installation for SBCL (was Re: [Sbcl-devel] SHA-1 implementation for contrib/)

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Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> writes:

> So, I propose that we accept an automated download tool (asdf-install
> or cclan-get or something) into contrib, then there's much less
> fussing around for people who want to grab larger or plausibly
> portable packages for use with SBCL.  I'd be inclined to go for
> asdf-install, with the following changes:

There having been more positive (one email, one irc message) than
negative (no) responses to this idea, I've gone ahead and done it.
Unless some other SBCL hacker is so violently opposed to the idea that
they remove it from CVS, you can get it in the CVS version of SBCL
(anoncvs from tomorrow) or in SBCL 0.8.3, due at the end of this
month.

For the impatient: until sourceforge anoncvs catches up with reality,
you can see the README file that comes with it at

  http://ww.telent.net/asdf-install.README

>   (Incidentally, IWBNI there were a CL interface to pgp/gpg that could
>   do general things like sign/encrypt/decrypt streams, verify
>   signatures and tell you who signed something, etc etc)

I still believe this to be the case, if anyone is looking for a project.
If it works internally by driving the command line gpg for the time
being I don't care so much, but a nice interface would be a big start


- -dan

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