Update: this document (in version 1.1) has been submitted and accepted as a new item in the Common Document Repository. It can now be officially referred to as “CDR 7”.
Feb 11, 2011
Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b19 has just been released. This version comes with a couple of fixes related to error handling and a switch from the GPL to the BSD license.
Feb 9, 2011
It’s been a long time since I last thought about this. Software licensing is probably the most dreadful computer science topic to me. So out of boredom, laziness, but also out of a feeling of adherence to the ideas behind the FSF, I used to blindly stick the GNU GPL to most of my code. A couple of things made me rethink about that passive attitude recently though, notably the fact that the viral nature of the GPL is not something that I always want.
Feb 8, 2011
Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b18 is now out. Compared to the previous version, the only small bit of change is the fact that the CLISP implementation now depends only optionally on CFFI, whereas that dependency was mandatory before. Doing this is actually quite simple but raised the question of optional ASDF system dependencies, a topic on which there’s quite a bit to be said.
Jan 25, 2011
I’m happy to announce the release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b17. This version notably introduces support for ABCL and expands the documentation in the portability section.
Jan 24, 2011
UPDATE: ABCL now supports the POSIX-compliant use of --, so I’ve modified this article to reflect that. I’ve also added a final trick to emulate the existence of a proper argv[0].
Jan 22, 2011
I’m happy to annouce the release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b16. Most notable news for this release is the support for CLISP, which comes at the expense on one dependency (over CFFI).
Nov 30, 2010
I’m happy to annouce the release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b15. Most notable news for this release is the support for ECL.
Nov 18, 2010
I’m happy to annouce the release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b12. Most notable news for this release is the support for CCL.
Nov 11, 2010
I’m happy to annouce the release of Clon , the Common Lisp / Command-Line Options Nuker, version 1.0b11. Most notable news for this release is the support for CMU-CL.
Nov 9, 2010