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<a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> _(GNU)/_(Linux) is a non-commercial Linux-distribution which is very popular with developers, and has _(CMUCL) packages which are frequently updated. All the software in the <a href="http://www.debian.org/intro/free">main</a> distribution (section) of Debian is _(DFSG)-compliant - they invented the guidelines, after all. Quite a lot of CL software is in Debian, packaged using the _(common-lisp-controller) system. Look for packages whose names start with ?<tt>cl-</tt>?. There is the <a href="http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org">CL-Debian</a> project, that provides information about Common Lisp packaging, various source packages in <a href="http://darcs.net">Darcs</a> repositories and a mailing list. <h2>Extra repositories</h2> <a href="http://www.backports.org">Backports.org</a> has packages of recent Common Lisp libraries and implementations for Debian GNU/Linux Sarge on many architectures. Usage instructions can be found <a href="http://www.backports.org/instructions.html">here</a>. Extra repositories also exist for Ubuntu releases, where the platform dependent packages are available for i386 only. The lines for your <tt>/etc/apt/source.list</tt> file look like this: For sarge add <tt><pre>deb http://people.debian.org/~pvaneynd/cl-sarge-packages ./</pre></tt>for ubuntu breezy add <tt><pre>deb http://people.debian.org/~pvaneynd/cl-breezy-packages ./</pre></tt> <h2>Lisp-related packages</h2> Most Lisp programmers use the latest version of Debian called Sid or unstable. This version of Debian contains: <h3>Implementations</h3> <ul> <li> _(CMUCL) <li> _(SBCL) <li> _(OpenMCL) <li> _(CLisp) <li> _(GCL) <strike><li> _(acl-installer) An installer for AllegroCL</strike> <strike><li> _(lw-installer) An installer for Lispworks</strike> </ul> <h3>Software packages on CLiki</h3> /("Debian package" :attribute :topic :match :exact :case-sensitive nil) <h3>Other Software packages</h3> Many of these are actually on CLiki, but miss the * (Debian package) topic marker, which would make them show up on the list above. Industrious souls are encouraged to add such markers and delete the corresponding entry, if any, from this list. <ul> <li> _(metering) from _(CLOCC) [packaged by _(Christophe)] <li> _(IMHO) [cl-imho package maintained by _(Adam Di Carlo)] <li> _(allegroserve) [Packaged by _(Stig E Sand�)] <li> _(Langband) dev-snapshots, very experimental [packaged by _(Stig E Sand�)] <li> _(mail-streams) [_(Christophe)] <li> _(LISA) [_(Christophe)] <li> _(quick-arrays) [_(Peter Van Eynde)] <li> _(memoization) [_(Peter Van Eynde)] <li> _(series) [_(Peter Van Eynde)] <li> _(maxima) <li> _(cl-pdf) [_(Binghe)] <li> cl-postoffice [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> cl-port [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> cl-tester [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> cl-inflate [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(ilisp) [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(uffi) [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(lml) [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(clsql) [_(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(cl-who) [packaged by _(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(cl-html-template) [packaged by _(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(cl-gd) [packaged by _(Kevin Rosenberg)] <li> _(McCLIM) [packaged by Milan Zamazal] </ul> <h2>Suggestions/Hints/etc for package creators</h2> <ul> <li> Please use a package prefix that helps to track down the package in Debian and dselect in particular. A prefix will hopefully also help wrt inclusion in ordinary Debian and to avoid name conflicts. One such prefix might be ?<code>cl-</code>? for ordinary Common Lisp libraries. <li> If possible, use <code>:Depends</code> for other systems instead of including them in your package. As an example, the _(Langband)-package should depend on _(binary-types) instead of including them in the its package. <li> Persons investigating the natures and features of packaging systems, and persons intending to create Debian packages, may be interested in the page here on _(Debian Package)s</li> </ul> <h2>Hints for users</h2> <ul> <li> When using Debian and the _(common-lisp-controller) version 4, all packages can be loaded using the<code>(clc:clc-require :name)</code> syntax. For example, the cl-infix package can be loaded using<code>(clc:clc-require :infix)</code>. <li> With an implementation that uses the _(common-lisp-controller) you can simply use<code>(clc:clc-require :infix)</code> to load the precompiled version. </ul> <h2>Wishlist</h2> <ul> <li> _(CLORB) as a debian package which works "right away" in _(CMUCL) and _(SBCL) <li> _(Common Music) and _(Common Music Notation). These may require work to get working in _(CMUCL). <li> _(Jochen Schmidt) has a number of useful bits of code over at <a href="http://www.dataheaven.de/">his site</a>. <li> _(ECL) as a debian package <li> _(RegEx-CLAWK-Lexer) as a debian package (-- it has been for years, see cl-regex etc. I'd like to know if there is still interest) </ul>
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