Re: releasing a first quicklisp package

Ralph Schleicher <rs+usenet@ralph-schleicher.de> writes:

Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> writes:
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My plan for the installation of the service is to write a program that
invokes quicklisp to download the packages and then create all the files
necessary to run the service in a certain installation directly.  In
other words, the sysadmin would install and have the service ready to
run with a single command.  The procedure that would do such preparation
would be in the Common Lisp package that quicklisp will download and
install.

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So you presume the target system has a properly configured Common
Lisp system installed?

Yes, I do.

If so, why don't you just ship the source code together with the
installation script so that you do not have to download anything?

I could have people clone a git repository and then say "make install".
Something like that is what you have in mind?  I think that would work
well.  But I also want to release a quicklisp package because I
primarily have Common Lisp developers in mind.

Otherwise, ever though about shipping a pre-built standalone
executable file instead?

As a second step---once I have a homepage set up, for instance.  I'd
build executables for popular systems.