Open Source Common Lisp Software

S-SYSDEPS

An Abstraction Layer Over Platform Dependent Functionality

S-SYSDEPS is an abstraction layer over platform dependent functionality. This simple package is used as a building block in a number of other open source projects, as can be seen from this description of some other Open Source Common Lisp packages.

Contents

Features

S-SYSDEPS abstracts:

Status

S-SYSDEPS is considered stable code.

News

November 2005 - Created as a seperate project.

Platforms

S-SYSDEPS is, by definition, written in ANSI standard Common Lisp but implemented using non-standard extensions. At the moment, ports for LispWorks (reference), OpenMCL, CMUCL and SBCL exist. Some other CL implementations are partially supported.

Downloading

You can download the latested released tarball of the S-SYSDEPS package from http://homepage.mac.com/svc/s-sysdeps/s-sysdeps.tar.gz. This archive is signed on release by Sven Van Caekenberghe, whose public key is published at http://homepage.mac.com/svc/sven-public-ascii.gpg, the signature is in http://homepage.mac.com/svc/s-sysdeps/s-sysdeps.tar.gz.asc.

Alternatively you can access the DARCS repository at http://www.beta9.be/darcs/s-base64. For a good description on how to use DARCS see http://dirkgerrits.com/programming/erlisp/download/.

$ darcs get http://www.beta9.be/darcs/s-sysdeps
Example of basic darcs usage, get everything once and keep up to date by pulling in changes

Installation

The S-SYSDEPS package is loaded using ASDF. There is an excellent tutorial on ASDF to get you started. Alternatively you can use ASDF-INSTALL. There is an great tutorial on ASDF-INSTALL to get you on the way.

CL-USER 1 > (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :s-sysdeps)
Example of setting up and using ASDF to compile and load the package

Usage

For usage examples please have a look at the package using S-SYSDEPS.

API Reference

There is automatically generated API Reference documentation available for the S-SYSDEPS package.

Mailinglist

There is no mailing list for this project.

Changelog

Release Notes:

TODO

Port to even more platforms. Add some unit or functional tests, as well as some examples.

FAQ

Nothing appropriate.

Bugs

There are no known bugs.

Authors

S-SYSDEPS was written by Sven Van Caekenberghe. Ports to CMUCL and SBCL were contributed.

Maintainers

S-SYSDEPS is being maintained by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

License

You are granted the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser General Public License (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), also known as the LLGPL.

History

This file was part of S-XML-RPC and (N)KPAX.

References

Thera are no references.