Yes, portage is similar to FreeBSD's ports. Roughly: Ports/Portage: no every package can be updated independently by anyone who's got the rights. As a result, if things worked one month ago, and are now broken, you may have to revert many packages. Quicklisp: All packages are integrated together in a single release by the release manager. Tthe manager usually checked that everything builds well before making a release. There's much more investment there for the manager, but life is easier for users for the set of packages is always consistent.
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On 17 December 2013 13:33, Álvaro Castro-Castilla < alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not a FreeBSD user, but as far as I know, Gentoo's portage is pretty similar, and I'm familiar with it. I think that would be overengineering at the moment. About Quicklisp: it seems interesting. It seems pretty similar, but I don't know it in detail. The tools I'm building are similar to Rake (ruby) / NPM (node.js) / Yeoman
What I'm doing is a set of curated libraries growing organically. It's everything pretty simple, though. It's better to have something simple that works, and build upon that. Just like Gambit does, but for the application developer who wants to start from something and still have all the flexibility Gambit provides.
I'll create better documentation during the next days, so the most important pieces are well documented, and can be improved on top of what is already done. There is a lot to be done =)
Álvaro Castro-Castilla -- a@fourthbit.com Fourthbit: Turning Ideas into Reality. -- Visit the Blog<http://blog.fourthbit.com>On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Adrien Piérard <pierarda@iro.umontreal.ca
wrote:
Do you plan to make something like FreeBSD's ports or rather something like quicklisp?
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On 16 December 2013 23:53, Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Răzvan Rotaru <razvan.rotaru@gmail.com
wrote:
I wish I would have found schemespheres.org earlier. Thinks like these should be mentioned in the wiki.
Razvan
Yes, that'd be nice ;) But bear in mind that the project is still evolving and in alpha stage,
so I
didn't talk too much about it for that reason. We are going to make it a solid foundation upon which you can build your own apps. But that takes
time
:)
At the moment is already helpful, it should work. If you need assistance with its installation or you are experiencing any issues, please don't hesitate to contact me so it can be improved.
Best regards
Álvaro
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