1 Alexandria is a collection of portable public domain utilities that
2 meet the following constraints:
4 * Utilities, not extensions: Alexandria will not contain conceptual
5 extensions to Common Lisp, instead limiting itself to tools and
6 utilities that fit well within the framework of standard ANSI
7 Common Lisp. Test-frameworks, system definitions, logging
8 facilities, serialization layers, etc. are all outside the scope of
9 Alexandria as a library, though well within the scope of Alexandria
12 * Conservative: Alexandria limits itself to what project members
13 consider conservative utilities. Alexandria does not and will not
14 include anaphoric constructs, loop-like binding macros, etc.
16 * Portable: Alexandria limits itself to portable parts of Common
17 Lisp. Even apparently conservative and useful functions remain
18 outside the scope of Alexandria if they cannot be implemented
19 portably. Portability is here defined as portable within a
20 conforming implementation: implementation bugs are not considered
25 http://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/
29 http://lists.common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-devel
30 http://lists.common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-cvs
34 git://common-lisp.net/projects/alexandria/alexandria.git
38 http://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria.html
40 (To build docs locally: cd doc && make html pdf info)
44 Patches are always welcome! Please send them to the mailing list as
45 attachments, generated by "git format-patch -1".
47 Patches should include a commit message that explains what's being
48 done and /why/, and when fixing a bug or adding a feature you should
49 also include a test-case.
51 Be advised though that right now new features are unlikely to be
52 accepted until 1.0 is officially out of the door.