Here's something interesting from Sean Ross:

Hi all,

This post is to announce the release of Mudballs, a collection of Common Lisp code for managing systems. It is currently in an early stage of development and still has a long way to go but is currently able to compile, load, document, download and install systems across Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Mudballs supports the following implementations

Lispworks on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.

SBCL on Mac OSX and Linux.

CMUCL on Mac OSX and Linux.

CLISP on Linux and Windows (Mac OSX as well provided you have FFI).

ClozureCL/OpenMCL on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.

AllegroCL on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows.

As it currently stands it is not ASDF compatible (not ideal, I know) but ASDF support is planned for the future.

It is available from http://mudballs.com which contains enough information to get the intrepid lisper on his or her way.

As a small taste, the following is now possible from a freshly installed Lisp with Mudballs loaded.

> (mb:install :hunchentoot) > (hunchentoot:start-server :port 8080)

Cheers,

Sean.