This directory contains application packages for CLISP. The .orig files contain the original distribution from beta.xerom.com. The .clisp files contain the sources, modified to run on CLISP. I am not distributing memory images of these. You can compile it yourself, just by typing "make" in the corresponding directory. PCL is an implementation of a large subset of CLOS. From the CLISP version 1993-09-01 on, CLISP has a native CLOS. You do not need PCL any more (except if you want to program at the meta-object protocol level). CLX is an interface to the X window system. (Unix version of CLISP only.) Garnet is a Lisp-based graphical user interface. MCS is an object system for Common Lisp which emphasizes the use of metaclasses. SERIES is Richard C. Waters' Series package, as described in the appendix of CLtL2. series-diffs contains the diffs from the original distribution to this distribution. Screamer is an extension for nondeterministic programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the comp.lang.lisp FAQ: PCL -- parcftp.xerox.com:pcl/ [13.1.64.94] Portable Common Loops (PCL) is a portable implementation of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). A miniature CLOS implementation called Closette is available pcl/mop/closette.lisp. MCS (Meta Class System) -- ftp.gmd.de:/lang/lisp/mcs/ [129.26.8.90] Portable object-oriented extension to Common Lisp. Integrates the functionality of CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System), and TELOS, (the object system of LeLisp Version 16 and EuLisp). MCS provides a metaobject protocol which the user can specialize. Runs in any valid Common Lisp. Contact: Harry Bretthauer and Juergen Kopp, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), AI Research Division, P.O. Box 1316, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG, email: juergen.kopp@gmd.de CLUE (Common Lisp User-Interface Environment) is from TI, and extends CLX to provide a simple, object-oriented toolkit (like Xt) library that uses CLOS. Provides basic window classes, some stream I/O facilities, and a few other utilities. Still pretty low level (it's a toolkit, not widget library). Available free by anonymous ftp from csc.ti.com:pub/clue.tar.Z Written by Kerry Kimbrough. Send bug reports to clue-bugs@dsg.csc.ti.com. CLIO (Common Lisp Interactive Objects) is a GUI from the people who created CLUE. It provides a set of CLOS classes that represent the standard components of an object-oriented user interface -- such as text, menus, buttons, scroller, and dialogs. It is included as part of the CLUE distribution, along with some packages that use it, both sample and real. XIT (X User Interface Toolkit) is an object-oriented user interface toolkit for the X Window System based on Common Lisp, CLOS, CLX, and CLUE. It has been developed by the Research Group DRUID at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Stuttgart as a framework for Common Lisp/CLOS applications with graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. The work is based on the USIT system developed by the Research Group INFORM at the University of Stuttgart. Although the system kernel is quite stable, XIT is still under active development. XIT can be obtained free by anonymous ftp from ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.1) in the directory /pub/xit/. Garnet is a large and flexible GUI. Lots of high-level features. Does *not* depend on CLOS, but does depend on CLX. Garnet (version 2.0 and after) is now in the public domain, and has no licensing restrictions, so it is available to all foreign sites and for commercial uses. Detailed instructions for obtaining it by anonymous ftp are available by anonymous ftp from a.gp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.242.7] as the file /usr/garnet/garnet/README. Garnet includes the Lapidiary interactive design tool, C32 constraint editor, spreadsheet object, Gilt Interface Builder, automatic display management, two widget sets (Motif look-and-feel and Garnet look-and-feel), support for gesture recognition, and automatic constraint maintenance, application data layout and PostScript generation. Runs in virtually any Common Lisp environment, including Allegro, Lucid, CMU, and Harlequin Common Lisps on Sun, DEC, HP, Apollo, IBM 6000, and many other machines. Garnet helps implement highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation programs for X/11 in Common Lisp. Typical applications include: drawing programs similar to Macintosh MacDraw, user interfaces for expert systems and other AI applications, box and arrow diagram editors, graphical programming languages, game user interfaces, simulation and process monitoring programs, user interface construction tools, CAD/CAM programs, etc. Contact Brad Myers (bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu) for more information. Bug reports and administrative questions: garnet@cs.cmu.edu. Garnet is discussed on the newsgroup comp.windows.garnet. Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for nondeterministic programming. Screamer consists of two levels. The basic nondeterministic level adds support for backtracking and undoable side effects. On top of this nondeterministic substrate, Screamer provides a comprehensive constraint programming language in which one can formulate and solve mixed systems of numeric and symbolic constraints. Together, these two levels augment Common Lisp with practically all of the functionality of both Prolog and constraint logic programming languages such as CHiP and CLP(R). Furthermore, Screamer is fully integrated with Common Lisp. Screamer is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.ai.mit.edu as the file /pub/screamer.tar.Z. Contact Jeffrey Mark Siskind for further information.