quicklisp/quicklisp-client — pull request #57 by vseloved (2012-04-04 06:16:33+00:00)
Title: Support for finding projects in tarballs

Hi Xach,

For deployment of my internal projects I needed a way to distribute custom libraries as a single file a la java jars (the obvious choice being tarballs). As quicklisp has all the pieces needed for that, I've just re-used them and added a separate searcher function, that searches in ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY* dirs for tarballs and unpacks them in the same dir.

I though that this may be an interesting addition to quicklisp-client. The current implementation is more of a proof-of-concept sort, as it doesn't involve ASDF source registry (should it?) and unpacks the tarballs in-place (probably, there should be a more robust variant). If you have any ideas, how to improve that, I'm ready to implement them.

Vsevolod