LEM (Lem Extension Manager)

It's a configuration library that add the ability to Lem to have packages withing the user configuration directory.

Usage

Init example

The main function that we can use to add new packages is lem-use-package, this fuctions allow us to add libraries that will be loaded at run time when open Lem (the performance shouldn't be too much of a problem, as sbcl is very good using the cache).

To use this function, we can modify our init.lisp file in this way:

• Using the git source (we can specify a branch or specific commit):

(lem-extension-manager:lem-use-package
 "lisp-critic"
 :source (:type :git
           :url "https://github.com/g000001/lisp-critic.git"))
		   
(lem-extension-manager:lem-use-package "versioned-objects"
                 :source (:type :git
                           :url "https://github.com/smithzvk/Versioned-Objects.git"
                           :branch "advance-versioning"))

• Using the quicklisp package manager directly:

(lem-extension-manager:lem-use-package "fiveam" :source (:type :quicklisp))

It's also possible to recursive dependenices that are not on quicklisp (for example, other github packages), using the :dependencies keyword:

(lem-extension-manager:lem-use-package "versioned-objects"
                                       :source (:type :git
                                                :url "https://github.com/smithzvk/Versioned-Objects.git"
                                                :branch "advance-versioning")
                                       :dependencies (("ip-management"
                                                       :source
                                                       (:type :git
                                                        :url "https://github.com/Sasanidas/ip-management.git"))
                                                      ("1am" :source (:type :quicklisp))))

Interactive commands

LEM also provides some interactive commands to add/remove extension:

• extension-manager-install-ql-package:

This command will prompt for a list of all quicklisp indexed libraries to be installed, you can choose any of them and LEM will install it on your configuration (keep in mind that even tho it will get install/indexed for LEM, it will NOT be loaded unless specify in the configuration).

• extension-manager-test-ql-package:

This command is similar to extension-manager-install-ql-package with the key difference that is intended to try out quicklisp packages, so the command will download the package to a temporary directory, loaded into Lem and then forget about it. It's inteded to test packages on the fly, to make it permanent, use the lem-use-package function.

• extension-manager-remove-package:

This command will prompt for the installed packages and will removed the selected one.

• extension-manager-purge-packages:

This command will remove ALL installed packages.

Configuration

The packages are installed on returned folder from the lem function lem-extension-manager::default-home by default, but can be changed by modifing the variable lem-extension-manager:*packages-directory*.

Internals

TODO