qlot

You may already know of these, but for others curious: I'm also not a huge fan of quicklisp, though bundles[0] made it a little more bearable for me. You may also consider vend[1], ocicl[2] (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 have macrostep functionality that lets you expand macros in place, which has helped me immensely on more than one occasion, though you can also manually expand with macroexpand.

You can pin dependencies with Qlot or Ocicl (or vendor them with vend), but it might be a long time before you actually need this (the ecosystem is pretty darn stable). https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot/ https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl/ https://github.com/fosskers/vend/ (new)

Can anybody explain the difference, pro and cons between qlot [1] and ocicl [2]? Both Ocicl even newer than qlot but both not wide spread. Both seem to address the problem of project-local library dependency management By reading ocicls readme I don't really get the underlying mechanics. Qlot I consistently had problems with getting existing cloned projects to use it. Maybe we can share our experience here? Update: Added clpm [4] to include in comparison request. Question derived from thread[3] where this discussion started. [1] https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot [2] https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609491 [4] https://www.clpm.dev/

Other options are: - Quicklisp -really slick, libraries in there are curated. (with https support here: https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https and here: https://github.com/snmsts/quicklisp-https.git) - for project-local dependencies like virtualenv: https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot - a new, more traditional one: https://www.clpm.dev (CLPM comes as a pre-built binary, supports HTTPS by default, supports installing multiple package versions, supports versioned systems, and more) For recent Quicklisp upgrades: http://ultralisp.org/ Ocicl is very new (5 days) and tries a new approach, building "on tools from the world of containers".

Have you looked at Qlot (https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot)? It solves the problem of reproducible builds.