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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
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Subject: Re: [quicklisp] Re: Proposal for "apropos" feature that searches exported symbols across all quicklisp libraries
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 04:55:19 +0200
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Paul Sexton <psexton...@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I'm aware of slime-apropos, and packages like lispdoc. They only
> operate on installed/loaded packages. There are > 700 libraries
> bundled with quicklisp -- most users only use a small handful, and are
> ignorant of most of the others. There is a great deal of duplication
> of code (particularly "utility" functions). Many of the libraries have
> names which communicate nothing about their function. I wonder how
> many versions of "with-gensyms" are in those libraries?
>
> A global apropos would allow users to find out what is actually inside
> all of these libraries, without the need to install them locally.

Yes, yes, it's useful.

But I also tried to load everything once, and save a fully loaded
image.  It was rather successful (only half a dozen system couldn't be
loaded in the implementation I used).  The saved image wasn't
excessively big.  I should try it again…


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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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