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With a lot of help from Faré and James Y Knight we have now the incredible disappearing common-lisp-controller v7. We went from 617 to 267 lines which in fact are only 193 lines excluding comments and empty lines...

Using the new features of cl-asdf version 1.500 and higher the implementation of CLC is now merely setting a few variables and putting a few files into place. As an added bonus I added clbuild integration, so now people can download and update libraries with ease.

Still todo:

• there is an bug (#567912) that the first call to (clc:clc-require :<foo>) will fail with clisp due to a loop where there is no looping...
• We still need to find a way to precompile libraries
• Because asdf is now taking care of placing the fasl file in the correct place, we cannot remove fasls for a specific implementation or library, so we nuke them all. Not optimal.

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Still a nice improvement, I hope to find some time at fosdem to work on the other issues...

This weekend I finally did what I've been planning to do for some time and wrote a iPhoto exporter. See the alioth project oipe or "Offline iPhoto Exporter".

At home I backup my iMac to the debian server, but the iPhoto folder was just a mess and zoutke complained she could never find anything.

This is because the iPhoto folder itself is just a dump of your 'rolls' when you imported the picture. When you cleanup and classify nothing happens to the real data (which is good). So I needed something to take an iPhoto folder and turn it into something that other people can use...

The exporter is written for sbcl for now and use cl-sqlite to extract the folder structure of iPhoto and the pictures in those folders to generate both a link-farm with hard links to those images and a (really bad) set of webpages showing the thumbnails and linking to those pictures.

The advantages are that it is really fast (less then a minute for > 7000 pictures) and doesn't take up much more space.

Future plans include nicer web-pages, also having a 'Faces' and 'Location' hierarchy and adding the tags back to the pictures.

After some consideration I must conclude that the state of the Common Lisp packages in Debian is becoming unreasonable. One of the goals of forming the pkg-common-lisp team was that I would not be a bottleneck, as RL is inflicting more and more damage to my 'Debian playtime'.

Now that Luca left I'm basically the only 'active' (for very small values of active) DD/DM left. (no hard feeling towards anybody, just loads of thanks for the work they did)

I see two alternatives:

• other people get involved, investigating bugs and sending git/darcs/whatever format patches.


• we go low impact and remove common-lisp-controller and all Common Lisp libraries, and I/we only package the lisp implementations (clisp, ecl, sbcl, cmucl and perhaps ccl) without any special changes

I don't expect the first alternative to be realistic, so unless proven wrong I'll RFA/RM all the libraries/clc on the 5th of September.