Roswell - Common Lisp environment setup Utility.

This software is still beta. Basic interfaces are fixed, we beleive it works well on Unix-like platforms like Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, but some parts are not implemented, not stable on other OSes yet.

Description

Roswell is a command line tool to install and manage Common Lisp implementations damn easily.

Limitations

There's a lot of works should be done.

• SBCL is the only one we supports currently (#9)
• Not supports Windows (working on at #1)

Installation

Building

For Mac OS X users

If you're on Mac OS X and wanna use Homebrew, use the custom tap:

$ brew tap snmsts/roswell
$ brew install roswell

For Arch linux users

You can install Roswell via AUR:

$ yaourt -S roswell

others can build from source

$ git clone -b release https://github.com/snmsts/roswell.git
$ cd roswell
$ sh bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Setup

First of all, you have to install Lisp environment. You can install a binary version of SBCL and Quicklisp from internet by this command:

$ ros setup

After the installation, you can get sub-commands and command line options by this command:

$ ros

How to use

Installing Lisps

If you want to install the newest released version of sbcl you can do it by:

$ ros install sbcl

and if you have specific version like "1.2.0" to install then

$ ros install sbcl/1.2.0

will install that version.

You can get which version of SBCL are installed by this command:

$ ros list installed sbcl

Setting the default implementation used by ros

$ ros run -- --version

will show you which version are used. You can change implementation by

$ ros use sbcl/1.2.3

Using roswell with Emacs and SLIME

To setup slime with roswell, type like this

ros -Q -e '(ql:quickload :quicklisp-slime-helper)' -q

Add lines like below to init.el

(load (expand-file-name "~/.roswell/impls/ALL/ALL/quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))
(setq inferior-lisp-program "ros -L sbcl -Q run")

to load with .sbclrc

(setq inferior-lisp-program "ros -L sbcl -Q -l ~/.sbclrc run")

Chef recipe for roswell

@Rudolph-Miller is providing a Chef recipe for setting roswell up.

• Rudolph-Miller/chef-roswell

Why we named it 'roswell'?

From ‘made with secret alien technology’.

I felt making it easier to use Lisp for people is a kind of making opportunity for humanbeings to mingle with alien technology. I recall ‘roswell incident’ by the concept. I'm not sure what you feel.

See Also

• keens/cim : similar project that is implemented in shellscript.I motivated to implement roswell by seeing this project.

Author

SANO Masatoshi (snmsts@gmail.com)

Contributors

• Eitaro Fukamachi (e.arrows@gmail.com)
• Tomoya KAWANISHI (chopsticks.tk.ppfm@gmail.com)

Special Thanks to

• Eitaro Fukamachi (e.arrows@gmail.com) for naming this project.

Project

• https://github.com/snmsts/roswell

License

MIT