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From: Ralph Schleicher <rs+usenet@ralph-schleicher.de>
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Subject: Re: releasing a first quicklisp package
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:43:35 +0100
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Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> writes:

> My plan for the installation of the service is to write a program that
> invokes quicklisp to download the packages and then create all the files
> necessary to run the service in a certain installation directly.  In
> other words, the sysadmin would install and have the service ready to
> run with a single command.  The procedure that would do such preparation
> would be in the Common Lisp package that quicklisp will download and
> install.

So you presume the target system has a properly configured Common
Lisp system installed?  If so, why don't you just ship the source
code together with the installation script so that you do not have
to download anything?  Otherwise, ever though about shipping a
pre-built standalone executable file instead?

-- 
Ralph