{"id":59,"date":"2008-01-19T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T06:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryepup.unwashedmeme.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/experiments-with-clbuild-adw-charting-progress\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T06:09:43","slug":"experiments-with-clbuild-adw-charting-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryepup.unwashedmeme.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/experiments-with-clbuild-adw-charting-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"experiments with clbuild, adw-charting progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new laptop came in on Thursday, a tiny asus eeepc<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The default OS is a customized Xandros, a debian spin-off, so it was pretty easy to add some apt sources and get all the tools needed to try out clbuild<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So far I’m very impressed, almost everything has just worked.<\/p>\n

I installed darcs to download clbuild, and then it told me to install a few other tools: cvs, svn, and git.\u00c2\u00a0 I had one error later in the process, when git tried to use curl, but after installing curl things went pretty cleanly.<\/p>\n

I was unable to build SBCL from source using clbuild, but I think that was a sourceforge problem, not a clbuild problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Every other installation went very smoothly.<\/p>\n

I was particularly impressed by the ability to load emacs and slime.\u00c2\u00a0 I find setting up emacs to be the most laborious part of getting a lisp development environment going, and the “clbuild slime” command gets me halfway there.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at the clbuild script, the way they do it is pretty simple, but its a nice time savings to not need to look that stuff up.<\/p>\n

By automatically downloading a ton of code, clbuild also provided me with some nice reading, and I spent the evening hanging out with some neighbors and browsing source code, and saw some neat patterns.<\/p>\n

When I got back home, I hacked a little on adw-charting,\u00c2\u00a0 changing awhen and aif usages to when-let and if-let calls, which is a macro I saw in several Edi Weitz packages.\u00c2\u00a0 when-let\/if-let are a little longer than Marco Baringer’s awhen\/aif, but I like the explicit names.\u00c2\u00a0 awhen\/aif introduce meaningful names into the lexical environment, and that has always made me a little nervous.\u00c2\u00a0 Whenever names are introduced as side-effects I’m reminded of the mess that is ruby’s ActiveRecord, which has so much magical run-time craziness that your .rb file can seem totally unrelated to what actually gets executed.<\/p>\n

I also got just about done on a nice documentation page for adw-charting, similar to Vecto’s.\u00c2\u00a0 So similar, one might think I copy\/pasted the Vecto content and changed the relevant bits.\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up using this as an excuse to try out cl-who, which is a pretty nice library.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a bunch of adw-charting bugs in the process.\u00c2\u00a0 A few people have asked for source in blog comments, so my goal was to put out a 0.5 release today, but there are still some details to clear up:<\/p>\n

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  1. need to add some license crap to each source file (which might also be strangely similar to Vecto’s license crap)<\/li>\n
  2. need to add readme \/ license files<\/li>\n
  3. need to add some documentation about how adw-charting uses fonts<\/li>\n
  4. need to sort out gpg signing \/ asdf-install chores<\/li>\n
  5. possibly sort out apache incantations to allow read-only anonymous darcs access and submit a clbuild patch<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’ll try for Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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