New Common Lisp wiki page

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:51:08PM +0200, pvaneynd at debian.org wrote:
> > I took some time to fully rewrite the Common Lisp page on the Debian wiki:
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/CommonLisp <https://wiki.debian.org/CommonLisp>
> 
> I like it!
> 
> Two comments however:
> - I would steer newbies to clisp instead of ECL on platforms which don’t support SBCL…

The problem is that the clisp package is currently in very bad shape (5 RC
bugs, FTBFS on many archs). In particular it was neither part of stretch nor of
jessie. So it may not be very helpful to redirect our users to a package not
present in our last two stable releases… Maybe could we recommend "clisp or ECL"?

> - packaging up of CL libraries has been abandoned (at least for me). Newbies
> - should be steered to quicklisp, even if the library is packaged IMHO.

Ok. Out of curiosity, is this decision motivated by technical factors or by
lack of (packager’s) time?

Would you think putting the "quicklisp" section before the "apt" section is a
sufficient fix? Or should we be more explicit and add a warning about the
discontinuation of libraries packaging?

> As I said: I do like it, a welcome resource.

Thanks for your comments and positive feedback.

By the way, I applied on Alioth for joining the team (now waiting for your
acceptation). As a first task, I may be interested in salvaging clisp, if you
welcome help on that side.

Cheers,

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