Ocicl – An ASDF system distribution and management tool for Common Lisp

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  • ocicl

    An OCI-based ASDF system distribution and management tool for Common Lisp

  • > ... but still only supports one niche operating system.

    1. Linux is not a niche in the target market for this project.

    2. The project is written in Common Lisp with hard dependencies on SBCL-provided libraries[1], so there's reason to suspect it should work on other OSes supported by SBCL.

    3. Sure, the presence of Makefile and sb-posix imply it requires a POSIX compliant OS, but Linux is not the only one that fits the bill.

    4. The included Linux-only binary 'oras' is clearly a vendored artifact, not part of this project, and clearly an OCI client. A simple search shows it is indeed cross-platform[2].

    Perhaps you should try what almost every Linux user has had to do when encountering software actually built for only one "niche" operating system that they want to use on their OS: look.

    1. https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl/blob/170aff0/ocicl.asd#L34

    2. https://github.com/oras-project/oras/releases

  • distribution-spec

    OCI Distribution Specification

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  • ultralisp

    The software behind a Ultralisp.org Common Lisp repository

  • 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".

  • ql-https

    HTTPS support for Quicklisp via curl

  • 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".

  • quicklisp-https

  • 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".

  • qlot

    A project-local library installer for Common Lisp

  • 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".

  • oras

    OCI registry client - managing content like artifacts, images, packages

  • > ... but still only supports one niche operating system.

    1. Linux is not a niche in the target market for this project.

    2. The project is written in Common Lisp with hard dependencies on SBCL-provided libraries[1], so there's reason to suspect it should work on other OSes supported by SBCL.

    3. Sure, the presence of Makefile and sb-posix imply it requires a POSIX compliant OS, but Linux is not the only one that fits the bill.

    4. The included Linux-only binary 'oras' is clearly a vendored artifact, not part of this project, and clearly an OCI client. A simple search shows it is indeed cross-platform[2].

    Perhaps you should try what almost every Linux user has had to do when encountering software actually built for only one "niche" operating system that they want to use on their OS: look.

    1. https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl/blob/170aff0/ocicl.asd#L34

    2. https://github.com/oras-project/oras/releases

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