Reference implementation to deliver a command line tool

[foretspaisibles]

A few ideas:

I have no experience with running Lisp implementations on Windows and do not have access to a windows machine, so the result would be hard to test. But I am very supportive of the idea.

According to you, what are the basic requirements of such a software that would make a minimal example interesting?

To get started I would see something like:

• ⁠Relying on 3rd party libraries provided by the package system, so that a “configuration” step is needed.
• ⁠Relying on 3rd party external programs provided by the package system, so that a “configuration” step is needed.
• ⁠Depending on platform-specific aspects, to demonstrate adaptability.
• ⁠Compiled with different features sets, to demonstrate configurability.
• ⁠The end product is a package (PKG on the Mac, DEB on ubuntu) equipped with checksums and maybe GPG signatures.

What other requirements could be interesting?

[foretspaisibles]

Also:

to get started I would do a simpler step:

• ⁠rely on quicklisp libraries
• ⁠build a CL binary that runs on a Windows machine. My first goal is to have something that the user can double-click on. Such an app could be a Ltk window or a web server that starts on the terminal and opens the default web browser. If you want an example with dozens of CL dependencies, external ones, and that would help a project, search no more :)

I heard that some test the windows binary on Wine.

BTW, building an appimage could be great too. A project that does it: https://github.com/VitoVan/calm/blob/main/s/usr/linux/appimage.lisp