metadata.xml

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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
  <maintainer type="project">
    <email>common-lisp@gentoo.org</email>
    <name>Gentoo Common Lisp Project</name>
  </maintainer>
    <longdescription lang="en">
    Alexandria is a project and a library.

    As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and
    improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own
    idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually
    means is open to debate, but each project member has a veto on all
    project activities, so a degree of conservativism is inevitable.

    As a library Alexandria is one of the means by which the project
    strives for its goals. Alexandria is a collection of portable public
    domain utilities that meet the following constraints:

    * 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.
    * Team player: Alexandria will not (initially, at least) subsume
      or provide functionality for which good-quality special-purpose
      packages exist, like split-sequence. Instead, third party packages
      such as that may be "blessed".
    </longdescription>
    <upstream>
        <remote-id type="gitlab">alexandria/alexandria</remote-id>
    </upstream>
</pkgmetadata>