qlot VS sbcl

Other options are:

- Quicklisp -really slick, libraries in there are curated. (with https support here: https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https and here: https://github.com/snmsts/quicklisp-https.git)

- for project-local dependencies like virtualenv: https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot

- a new, more traditional one: https://www.clpm.dev (CLPM comes as a pre-built binary, supports HTTPS by default, supports installing multiple package versions, supports versioned systems, and more)

For recent Quicklisp upgrades: http://ultralisp.org/

Ocicl is very new (5 days) and tries a new approach, building "on tools from the world of containers".

I frequently use roswell (and occasionally qlot) to manage my CL distributions and packages. Native support for roswell would be fantastic!

An easy example would be to look at qlot.asd.

I think definitely some kind of integration with quicklisp and/or qlot would be amazing, so you can open a project and have all the dependencies pulled and ready for your project.

I prefer to use Qlot.

Based on the commit message [0], and the references to "user code" in this document, my guess is that user programs have or will have access, but it's not finalized enough to be documented.

That being said, I suppose if you're developing an internal API for a compiler/interpreter, your "users" could be other parts of the project rather than language users.

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/commit/7f65522a16d857e41aa61cd0...

See for example:

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals-notes...

related: the Immix inspired parallel-mark-region GC developed by Hayley Patton (https://github.com/no-defun-allowed/swcl) got merged recently into SBCL.

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals-notes...

https://applied-langua.ge/~hayley/swcl-gc.pdf

build with

    ./make.sh --without-gencgc --with-mark-region-gc (on x86-64/Linux and x86-64/macOS only at the moment).

The Immix inspired mark-region GC developed by Hayley Patton (https://github.com/no-defun-allowed/swcl) got merged recently, which is pretty cool news for SBCL users.