Quicklisp

Quicklisp is the package manager for the Common Lisp libraries, as well as the network repository of the packages it installs. Implemented with minimal Lisp tools, which ensures compatibility with most of the subdialects and implementations of Common Lisp.

Created in 2010 by Zachary Beane , he develops and maintains a network repository with packages. Distributed under the MIT license . As of 2018, it is at the beta stage, but it is considered quite stable and reliable ^[3] . Packages are accepted into the repository under the condition of error-free collection on the reference system and the fulfillment of some basic criteria, a deeper quality check is not carried out ^[4] .

After installation, the Quicklisp client is usually written to the interpreter initialization file:

(ql: add-to-init-file) ,

after which the manager is available at any start of the REPL environment ^[5] . A typical scenario is to search for a package in the repository:

(ql: system-apropos "wiki") - search for packages with a name containing "wiki",

and subsequent installation:

(ql: quickload "cl-mediawiki") - download with all the dependencies and install the cl-mediawiki package locally .

Supported by self-updating, implemented the ability to roll back in case of unsuccessful installation of any package.