diff --git a/README b/README index 930e7eca9d6cf52676eca50b8b979bd25ee19737..8081c60191634f94c8a251d179ebf26e9bdcda0f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,3 +1,52 @@ -Alexandria +Alexandria is a collection of portable public domain utilities that +meet the following constraints: -A collection of portable public domain utilities for Common Lisp. + * Utilities, not extensions: Alexandria will not contain conceptual + extensions to Common Lisp, instead limiting itself to tools and + utilities that fit well within the framework of standard ANSI + Common Lisp. Test-frameworks, system definitions, logging + facilities, serialization layers, etc. are all outside the scope of + Alexandria as a library, though well within the scope of Alexandria + as a project. + + * Conservative: Alexandria limits itself to what project members + consider conservative utilities. Alexandria does not and will not + include anaphoric constructs, loop-like binding macros, etc. + + * Portable: Alexandria limits itself to portable parts of Common + Lisp. Even apparently conservative and usefull functions remain + outside the scope of Alexandria if they cannot be implemented + portably. Portability is here defined as portable within a + conforming implementation: implementation bugs are not considered + portability issues. + +Homepage: + + http://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/ + +Mailing lists: + + http://lists.common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-devel + http://lists.common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-cvs + +Repository: + + git://common-lisp.net/projects/alexandria/alexandria.git + +Documentation: + + http://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria.html + + (To build docs locally: cd doc && make html pdf info) + +Patches: + + Patches are always welcome! Please send them to the mailing list as + attachments, generated by "git format-patch -1". + + Patches should include a commit message that explains what's being + done and /why/, and when fixing a bug or adding a feature you should + also include a test-case. + + Be adviced though that right now new features are unlikely to be + accepted until 1.0 is officially out of the door.