HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
CodyReichert
qi
Common Lisp2016–2016
CodyReichert / qi

qi

Qi - A Package Manager for Common Lisp

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
81GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Qi - A Package Manager for Common Lisp

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-20 21:22:32 UTC to 2016-04-02 19:11:34 UTC.

012016-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 202016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 262016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 2

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 202016-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 222016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 242016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 262016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 282016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 292016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 312016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
Hey, author here. YAML was chosen, as another user guessed correctly below, to enable version pinning. ASDF, as far as I knew, did not support any `version` in it's `dependencies` section. A while after the YAML configuration was implemented, though, I came across some docs on how to extend the ASDF configuration file with your own sections. That would allow Qi to get ride of the YAML file and just use ASDF (which would be ideal). The YAML file might not have been the _best_ choice, but it's widely supported and I needed more flexibility than the ASD file. As soon as I have more time, I'll definitely be looking at how to move that into the ASD file. It was the first issue: https://github.com/CodyReichert/qi/issues/1
In Qi: a Simple Package Manager for Common Lisp

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.