development

IDE-related enhancements:

• SLIME is the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode, Extended, a fantastic ILISP replacement.
• VIlisp, an (inferior) inferior lisp mode for vim.
• Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor, a source level debugger, a project explorer and a Lisp interaction window.
• IDE-ini , to add functionalities to the IDE of ACL
• ILISP, the inferior lisp mode for Emacs. (currently under a DFSG license)
• On MS-Windows, VisualCLisp is an GUI IDE for clisp.
• CL-Emacs: a vapourware implementation of Emacs in Common Lisp.
• cl-shell is an Emacs major mode that provides the ability to run Common Lisp from within an Emacs buffer.
• Tags creates a tagfile from Lisp source for use with vi.
• Using vi with Lisp. You really shouldn't. But since it's everywhere...Minimal tips.
• Cusp An Eclipse plugin that comes out of the box with SBCL and Swank for Windows, Linux, and OSX
• Dandelion Another Eclipse plugin, currently available with CLISP (for WinXP, MacosX, Linux). It supports the developer with syntax analyses as you type (limited), syntax highlighting, code completion, parenthesis matching, apropos and a listener.

Build-related enhancements:

• mk-defsystem is a make-like utility for CL projects.
• asdf: Another System Definition Facility.
• asdf-install: utility for downloading and installing asdf systems and dependencies.
• cl-configuration is a library which serves the purpose of a (stream lined) configure for CL.
• common-lisp-controller is a standard that packages can comply to, enabling easy installation and conversion to the package system used by the system. Also used by cclan.
• Windows Common Lisp Controller is a system inspired by common-lisp-controller that provides similar conveniences to Windows users.
• sys-analyser is a framework for analysing the characteristics of a system definition

Debuggers

• LISPDEBUG is a visual source level debugger for a number of CL implementations, succeeded by Jabberwocky.
• Alerts are a convenient debugging status indicator.
• Step is a portable code single-stepper and debugger from U. Waikato, New Zealand.

Cross-platform compatibility layers

• ah2cl is a C header parser
• cparse is another one
• uffi is a "universal" foreign function interface that supports a number of CL implementations.
• cffi attempts to supersede uffi.
• cl-environment is a small library that tries to canonicalize access to some of the internals of different CL implementations.
• clocc-port contains several compatibility layers.
• cl-fad is a portable pathname library based on the book "Practical Common Lisp".
• acl-compat implements parts of the ACL api for threading and sockets on various Lisp implementations.

Profiling tools

• Benchmarks: Benchmarking Suites can be used to compare different implementations.
• The metering facilities from CMU provide profiling tools.

Test Frameworks

• ASDF-Install-Tester - ASDF-Install-tester is a development tool and ASDF-Extension that automates the process of checking whether or not ASDF-Installable systems actually install under ASDF
• cl-smoketest - cl-smoketest is a small test framework for setting up basic does-it-compile tests
• Clickcheck - Clickcheck is a Development tool that provides a test framework
• clos-unit - Basically a port of JUnit to Common Lisp, probably deprecated in favor of xlunit
• CLUnit - CLUnit is a Test Framework - this Development tool allows a Common Lisp user to create maintain and run tests within a lisp environment
• EnclineTest - EnclineTest (etest) is a unit test framework, developed within Encline project
• FiveAM - FiveAM is a Test Framework whose goal is to be as simple as possible
• FReT - FReT is a unit test framework with interactive testing and authoring of tests
• LIFT - The LIsp Framework for Testing is another testing framework in the JUnit / SUnit lineage
• lisp-unit - A well-documented Test Framework in the style of JUnit, designed and implemented with simplicity of use in mind
• MSL-Test - MSL-Test is Paul Foley's Test Framework
• ptester - ptester is a portable version of Franz's tester library
• RT - Short for "regression testing", an older (last update 1995)
• Stefil - Stefil is a young test framework that drops the common idea of *Unit testing and is based on instrumented defun's callable from the repl
• tester - tester is the test framework harness that Franz uses for Allegro CL (ACL) development
• unit-test - unit-test is a Test Framework by Alan Picard
• xlunit - XLUnit is a Test Framework based on XPTest and JUnit
• XPTEST - XPTEST is a development tool that provides an automated test framework based on Extreme Programming

Documentation tools

• Albert is a javadoc-alike tool to generate reference documentation for Common Lisp code in DocBook. Compatible with ASDF.
• lisp-doc package for creating documentation from source code using inverse literate programming.
• TeX style macros for formatting Lisp code.
• User Manual: Automatical User Manual Creation.
• VGrind/TGrind entries for Common Lisp.
• nrw.documentation Fancyless Documentation library.
• Tinaa is a Lisp documentation system that relies on introspection to produce pretty HTML
• qbook generates HTML (or LaTeX) formatted code listings of Common Lisp source files.
• Documentation Template by Edi

Miscellaneous

• Matthias Hölzl's Design by Contract package.
• Thread Interfaces for Common Lisp from Martin Cracauer?
• Meta-CVS is a better version control system layered over CVS.
• TextEditors.org website has text editors that have CL editing features. Combined with project tools, this might make working on CL projects much easier.
• TU a hack for reading the translation unit dumps from GCC.
• cl-darcs is a darcs client written in Common Lisp.

Topic Search

• ASDF-Extension - This is the topic page for extensions to ASDF
• ASDF-Install - asdf-install is a development application for downloading and installing
• ASDF-Install-Tester - ASDF-Install-tester is a development tool and ASDF-Extension that automates the process of checking whether or not ASDF-Installable systems actually install under ASDF
• asdf-packaging-tools - ASDF based utilities for development
• CAPI-OVERVIEW - CAPI-OVERVIEW is a small Lisp package that can create a graphical overview of (some) CAPI classes
• CLAWS - CLAWS (Common Lisp Application and Web Server) is an attempt to provide a complete
• Clickcheck - Clickcheck is a Development tool that provides a test framework
• Clotho - Clotho is an embryonic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for MacOS X based on OpenMCL
• CLUnit - CLUnit is a Test Framework - this Development tool allows a Common Lisp user to create maintain and run tests within a lisp environment
• Corman Lisp - Corman Lisp is a non-free Common Lisp implementation and development environment for Microsoft Windows operating systems running on Intel platforms
• cparse - cparse is a Library and parser for C header files and building FFIs
• CVS - CVS (Concurrent Version System) is a network-aware version control system for collaborative project development
• Editing Lisp Code with Emacs - Marco's Highly Opinionated Guide to Editing Lisp Code with Emacs
• FiveAM - FiveAM is a Test Framework whose goal is to be as simple as possible
• FReT - FReT is a unit test framework with interactive testing and authoring of tests
• hyperobject - Hyperobject is a Object Representation package for development
• ILISP - ILISP is a Emacs based interface to various lisp-like systems - a pretty essential Development aid
• Jabberwocky - Important: I have decided to not develop Jabberwocky any further, if minor bugs are discovered, I'm prepared to solve them however
• LIFT - The LIsp Framework for Testing is another testing framework in the JUnit / SUnit lineage
• Lisp Deployment - I recently posted a question on the slime-devel list and it was suggested by Gary King that a CLiki page might be a good idea, so here it is! My original mail was:
• LISPDEBUG - LISPDEBUG is a source-level Common Lisp debugger for development, written by Marc Mertens
• local-time - local-time is a development library for manipulating date and time information in a semi-standard manner
• LW-ADD-ONS - LW-ADD-ONS is a collection of "enhancements" to the LispWorks IDE
• LW-DOC - LW-DOC is a small Lisp package that can create a permuted index for the LispWorks documentation
• McCLIM Listener - The McCLIM Listener is an Application / Development tool that is part of McCLIM
• Meta-CVS - Meta-CVS is a development application which builds a more capable version control system around CVS
• mk-defsystem - MK-defsystem is a system definition utility; it fills a similar role for CL Development as make(1) does for C
• sb-readline - sb-readline implements GNU readline support (including command line editing, history, and so forth) for SBCL
• scexp - Symbolic C Expressions, or scexp for short, is a Development tool for translating a S-Expression syntax tree for a subset of ANSI C
• SLIME Tips - This page is for collecting tips for avoiding problems with and making the best use of SLIME, the Emacs-based Lisp development environment
• Stefil - Stefil is a young test framework that drops the common idea of *Unit testing and is based on instrumented defun's callable from the repl
• SWINE - Swine is the addition of Slime editing commands to Climacs using Slime's SWANK backend
• tester - tester is the test framework harness that Franz uses for Allegro CL (ACL) development
• Toplevel - A top-level command implementation vaguely reminiscent of Allegro CL's is available for CMUCL at Paul Foley's http://users
• UFFI - New developments will probably prefer to use CFFI
• XPTEST - XPTEST is a development tool that provides an automated test framework based on Extreme Programming

Pages in this topic: ASDF-Extension   ASDF-Install   ASDF-Install-Tester   asdf-packaging-tools   CAPI-OVERVIEW   CLAWS   Clickcheck   Clotho   CLUnit   Corman Lisp   cparse   CVS   Editing Lisp Code with Emacs   FiveAM   FReT   hyperobject   ILISP   Jabberwocky   LIFT   Lisp Deployment   LISPDEBUG   local-time   LW-ADD-ONS   LW-DOC   McCLIM Listener   Meta-CVS   mk-defsystem   sb-readline   scexp   SLIME Tips   Stefil   SWINE   tester   Toplevel   UFFI   XPTEST  

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