Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:14:08 GMT From: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: 87532deaa6 - main - Website - Status: Add Common Lisp report Message-ID: <202501180914.50I9E8Ok024413@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by carlavilla: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=87532deaa63af131748601bc0a753c0f4799d2d6 commit 87532deaa63af131748601bc0a753c0f4799d2d6 Author: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2025-01-18 09:13:36 +0000 Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-01-18 09:13:36 +0000 Website - Status: Add Common Lisp report Reviewed by: Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>, Chris Moerz <freebsd@ny-central.org> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48407 --- .../status/report-2024-10-2024-12/common-lisp.adoc | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/common-lisp.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/common-lisp.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b4564258dc --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/common-lisp.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +=== Improving Common Lisp Infrastructure in FreeBSD Ports + +Contact: Joe Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> + +link:https://lisp-lang.org/[Common Lisp] (CL) is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language first conceived in the early 1980s. +Although it predates many modern programming languages, it remains a viable option for many different projects. +One contemporary example is Grammarly, a widely used grammar engine reportedly implemented in CL and capable of processing over a thousand sentences per second. + +The FreeBSD ports tree has provided CL support for many years. +The initial work was contributed by Henrik Motakef in 2003, and then enhanced and maintained by Jimmy Olgeni. +The infrastructure facilitated building and installing CL libraries using link:https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/[ASDF] so that multiple CL implementations could load compiled object code files (fasl) at run-time without conflicts. + +However, many issues crept in over the years. +Support dwindled to only one CL implementation, link:https://www.sbcl.org/[SBCL], and users encountered longstanding bugs such as conflicting ASDF versions and write errors when loading libraries outside the ports tree. +Also, managing dependencies was cumbersome because most infrastructure code was included as part of the package:devel/cl-asdf[] port. + +A long overdue update of the FreeBSD CL infrastructure was completed this quarter. +The primary outcome is that users can, once again, easily and reliably work with CL on FreeBSD. +For example, installing and loading the popular Alexandria library under SBCL requires only a few simple steps. + +[source, shell] +---- +% pkg install cl-alexandria-sbcl +% sbcl +* (asdf:load-system :alexandria) +---- + +Similar steps can be used to load libraries for the other two newly supported implementations: link:https://ccl.clozure.com/[CCL], and link:https://clisp.sourceforge.io/[CLISP]. +Most users will likely prefer to work with the fasl ports, although there is no obligation to do so. +Because ASDF is now configured to fall back to its default caching mechanism of writing fasl to a cache under `${HOME}`, users can also install CL source ports without the associated fasl port or load CL sources from outside of the ports tree. + +Other highlights of the update include: + +- decoupling ASDF initialization from package:devel/cl-asdf[] by creating a dedicated port: package:devel/freebsd-cl-asdf-init[] +- creating `USES=cl` +- adding and updating various CL library ports for the three supported implementations +- updating and modernizing package:lang/ccl[] and package:lang/clisp[] + +For details, refer to these commit logs: + +- link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=4c954c1522cbf4d05013caaf40c36458d82f1480[4c954c1522cbf4d05013caaf40c36458d82f1480] +- link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=f6a75a8f9bf20dbf1e9a4d5bc171d58f595c1ec1[f6a75a8f9bf20dbf1e9a4d5bc171d58f595c1ec1] +- link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=1d7c75a5cde6792b3872340edeaf8f278add291a[1d7c75a5cde6792b3872340edeaf8f278add291a] +- link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=148251b431b8d972623bb3adaa5a71355f47ac26[148251b431b8d972623bb3adaa5a71355f47ac26] +- link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=7f68336ed19be61027dfb7b461aacd056733eba4[7f68336ed19be61027dfb7b461aacd056733eba4] + +The tentative plan is to add support for link:https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/[ECL] after an ASDF output translation issue is solved and to create ports for other CL libraries. +Feedback, testing, and contributions are welcome. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation
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