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Manage your Common Lisp project dependencies.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2025-04-12 · latest 2026-08-26

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  1. …(heavily AI-assisted recently), or qlot[3]. [0] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/bundles.html [1] https://github.com/fosskers/vend [2] https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl [3] https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot For macroexpansion, SLIME and SLY…
    comment by dieggsy · 2026-08-26 · in A curmudgeon tries a language server
  2. There's also vend ( https://github.com/fosskers/vend ) for package management and per project isolation.
    comment by rootnod3 · 2026-03-22 · in Common Lisp Development Tooling
  3. Highly recommend https://github.com/fosskers/vend
    comment by rootnod3 · 2026-02-14 · in Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action
  4. …while I do not like submodules, for vendoring stuff it seems a reasonable approach. There's also https://github.com/fosskers/vend if you lean that way.
    comment by cdegroot · 2025-12-11 · in Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  5. …is pretty darn stable). https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot/ https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl/ https://github.com/fosskers/vend/ (new)
    comment by vindarel · 2025-12-11 · in Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  6. …absolute minimum. In my current project it's 15 dependencies, including the sub-dependencies. [1]: https://github.com/fosskers/vend
    comment by rootnod3 · 2025-08-27 · in Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
  7. > good dep management you can see https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl and https://github.com/fosskers/vend (newer) > sane beginner defaults agree. CLISP's REPL is beginner friendly, but we shall not advise it today. I'm doing this:…
    comment by vindarel · 2025-06-07 · in Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
  8. …if you rely on libecl you can get very small binaries (I didn't explore this yet, see example in https://github.com/fosskers/vend )
    comment by vindarel · 2025-04-12 · in Why I Program in Lisp