Steeldump_BETA

Steeldump is an unofficial APT repository for applications written in Common Lisp.

• Steeldump provides binary packages based on SBCL.
• It uses sb-heapdump as the binary format.
• The focus is on end-user applications, with libraries being pulled in only as necessary.
• Currently only for x86 (built by David Lichteblau on Debian testing).

All packages included are assumed to be Free Software under various different licenses. No warranty whatsoever can be provided for Steeldump. "Now fear, comprehensively."

News

Belatedly, a release based on SBCL 0.9.14.

New release based on SBCL 0.9.13.

Added two window managers written entirely in Lisp:

• Eclipse, complete with themes and Gnome support.
• And stumpwm, the minimalistic ratpoison-lookalike.

Minor addition: The CLIM Listener has its own startup script now, included in the steeldump-mcclim package.

First public release. Please test gently. Based on SBCL 0.9.12.

Changes since the very first #lisp preview release:

• Added: beirc, cl-irc, trivial-sockets, flexi-streams, trivial-gray-streams, tab-layout, cl-fad, cl-ppcre.
• Fixed: climacs command table issues.
• Changed: ASDF integration. No more startup messages.

Installation

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list, then run aptitude update.

deb http://common-lisp.net/project/steeldump unstable main

Packages are all named steeldump-foo. E.g., to install climacs, type aptitude install steeldump-climacs. All packages install exclusively to /opt/steeldump and do not interact with the Lisp packages included in Debian at all.

There are no source code packages, but full source code is included in each binary package. (Except for SBCL itself, which is packaged as steeldump-sbcl with source code only for the contribs, as usual.)

Usage

• Binaries (for the applications) can be found in /opt/steeldump/bin.
• SBCL can be started manually using /opt/steeldump/bin/sbcl.
  (Make sure that $SBCL_HOME is not set incorrectly when doing so. A correct setting for this variable would be /opt/steeldump/lib/sbcl, but that value is already compiled into the SBCL binary, so it is not necessary to override it.)
• bin/sbcl loads user init files (~/.sbclrc). The application scripts do not.
• To load heapdumped systems at the Lisp REPL manually, use (require :foo).
• It is possible to use ASDF's load-op instead, although that just ends up calling require through a trampoline system. Once the heap file has been loaded, however, a real asdf system object takes charge.
• Implementation detail: To save a little space, source code is installed without fasls. Instead, the fasls are replaced with (essentially) empty files that just have the correct timestamp to make ASDF come to the conclusion that it has nothing to do.

How to report problems

If you encounter something you think is a bug, please try to find out whether the problem lies with steeldump or with the upstream application/library.

If you believe steeldump is to blame, please send bug reports to steeldump-devel@common-lisp.net to avoid pestering upstream maintainers with problems they cannot know anything about. If possible, please include a patch. See below for instructions on the steeldump scripts.

If, however, the bug is also present is the upstream source code, please send your report directly to the upstream project. Thanks.