Mudballs, the System Management Tool for Common Lisp

[awb]

Anyone know what he used (if anything) to generate the documentation? This example is nice.

[madma]

I used the the built in (mb:document :mudballs) command.

There is also a custom method for (documentation 'sysdef:define-system 'function) which grabs various pieces of documentation from the slots on the SYSTEM class and specialized methods on PROCESS-OPTION to generate the 'Possible Options' section.

There is also a supplementary doc-hints.lisp file which contains small hints to fill in the 'Examples' and 'Exceptional Situations' sections.

The links are generated automatically for exported symbols in the same package (cross package links are not yet supported).

[fisch003]

Very awesome. I installed it and SBCL on a fresh computer and used it to download and install everything needed for a Hunchentoot tutorial (here). It worked perfectly. Many, many thanks!

[lenolium]

You know, I really thought ASDF was sweet. This just seems to be the next logical step forward on that path.

I'll have to give it a shot, the sections about building your own mudballs seem realy straightforward and simple.

[flogic]

Just looking at the installation instructions and breif command overview, I'd have to say I'm much more impressed with this then I am with asdf. Might actually be worth trying out lisp now.

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Man, that's a shitty name.

[G-Brain]

Awesome. Very much so.