clget

clget is yet another downloader of lisp packages. The main goal is to make getting of lisp stuff easier and painless. It's similiar to , but instead of getting prepared (released) package it gets the latest version published as tar-balls, cvs, svn, git, mercurial, darcs repository.

clget is released under BSD license.

List of supported packages: packages.txt, packages.html

News

2007-12-09

2007-07-07

Installation and Tutorial

1. Downloading

prompt$ wget -q http://common-lisp.net/project/clget/clget
prompt$ cp clget /usr/local/bin
prompt$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/clget

2. Checking environment

prompt$ clget check
Checking presence of http client: '/usr/bin/wget'.
Checking presence of tar archiving utility: '/bin/tar'.
Checking presence of cvs client: '/usr/bin/cvs'.
...

3. Updating packages list

prompt$ clget update
Downloading packages list from 'http://common-lisp.net/project/clget/packages.txt' ..

4. Listing available packages

prompt$ clget list
cffi                 - The Common Foreign Function Interface.
chunga               - Portable chunked streams for Common Lisp
cl+ssl               - A simple Common Lisp interface to OpenSSL.
...

5. Getting some stuff

clget get slime sbcl-linux 

6. Upgrading existing packages (fetches changes only)

clget upgrade slime

7. Packages are downloaded into current directory.

Development and support

There is a Git repository:

git clone http://nablaone.net/repo/git/clget.git

Please send questions, suggestions and bug reports to clget-devel mailing list: clget-devel mailing list.

Project members:

• Rafal Strzalinski

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