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You might have already noticed that there are bunch of "command line interface" libraries for Common Lisp. What's the difference!?

Below is a brief comparison of different libraries. The evaluation thoroughly depends on my (Masataro Asai aka guicho271828) personal taste and not subject to rigorous tests, however I hope it would give you a grasp of the relationship / dominance between these libraries.

Feature	Roswell	CIM	cl-launch	buildapp
--- Implementation Management
Launching a script with different lisp impls	✔	✔	✔	⚠
Managing (install, switch) lisp impls	✔	✔
Managing (install, switch) lisp impls+versions	✔	✔
--- Supported Impl
sbcl	✔	✔	✔	✔
ccl	✔	✔	✔	✔
ecl	✔	✔	✔
clisp	✔	✔	✔
lispworks			✔
abcl	✔	✔	✔2
cmucl	✔	✔	✔
alisp (allegro)	✔	✔	✔1
gcl (obsoleted, not ANSI anyway)			✔1 (ANSI mode)
scienner (who cares?)			✔1
xcl (seems dead: last update 2010 Oct)			✔2
--- Scripting
Script templates	✔
Managing several script templates	✔
Managing scripts	✔
Bundling/installing a script to/from a quicklisp library	✔
Shell integration (e.g. bash completion)	✔	✔
--- Dumping
Dump feature	✔		✔	✔
Managing dumped images	✔
--- CI integration
Local installation (no sudo)	✔
Helper scripts	✔	⚠ (via cl-travis)
--- Quality
Documentation	✔ organized manpage	✔ organized man page	⚠ Overlength manual @ --help / cliki	✔ web page
Code Quality	clean?	"sh circus" (シェル芸) (keens)	"Hard to Hack" (fare)	clean?
CI-Tested	✔
--- Others
Windows support	✔
Easy Upgrade		✔ cim get
Practical Use Case (reputation)	good	mainly on CI?	fair?	good
Implemented in	C+lisp	sh+lisp	sh+lisp	lisp

Re: Shelly, the author (Fukamachi) declared (to be precise, "I think I heard him saying") it as deprecated and "dead" by himself.

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