S-SYSDEPS

An Abstraction Layer Over Platform Dependent Functionality

S-SYSDEPS is an abstraction layer over platform dependent functionality. This simple package is used as a building block in a number of other open source projects.

Contents

• Features
• Status
• News
• Platforms
• Downloading
• Installation
• Usage
• API Reference
• Mailinglist
• Changelog
• TODO
• FAQ
• Bugs
• Authors
• Maintainers
• License
• History
• References

Features

S-SYSDEPS abstracts:

• managing processes
• implementing a standard TCP/IP server
• opening a client TCP/IP socket stream
• working with process locks

Status

S-SYSDEPS is considered stable code.

News

November 2005 - Created as a seperate project.

Platforms

S-SYSDEPS is, by definition, written in ANSI standard Common Lisp but implemented using non-standard extensions. At the moment, ports for LispWorks (reference), OpenMCL, CMUCL and SBCL exist. Some other CL implementations are partially supported.

Installation

The S-SYSDEPS package is loaded using ASDF. There is an excellent tutorial on ASDF to get you started.

CL-USER 1 > (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :s-sysdeps)

Example of setting up and using ASDF to compile and load the package

Usage

For usage examples please have a look at the package using S-SYSDEPS.

API Reference

There is automatically generated API Reference documentation available for the S-SYSDEPS package.

Mailinglist

There is no mailing list for this project.

Changelog

Release Notes:

• release 1: moved S-SYSDEPS into a separate project under a new structure

TODO

• Port to even more platforms.
• Add some unit or functional tests
• Some example code.

FAQ

Nothing appropriate.

Bugs

There are no known bugs.

Authors

S-SYSDEPS was written by Sven Van Caekenberghe. Ports to CMUCL and SBCL were contributed.

Maintainers

S-SYSDEPS is being maintained by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

License

You are granted the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser General Public License (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), also known as the LLGPL.

History

This file was part of S-XML-RPC and (N)KPAX.

References

There are no references.

Copyright © 2004-2005 Sven Van Caekenberghe, Beta Nine BVBA. All Right Reserved.