Please add sdraw

[azzamsa]

SDRAW - draws cons cell structures.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Lisp/sdraw/sdraw.generic

[quicklisp]

There are a few issues with adding sdraw.

First, it's not a regular project with a download, a system file, and a README. That means extra work for packaging it up for quicklisp.

Second, there is no clear licensing information in the code, so it's not clear I can redistribute it as part of Quicklisp.

[azzamsa]

For the second problem, I can ask the license to the author for you.

But I think draw-cons-tree already included in Quicklisp relase, so I can use this package which has the same functionality as Sdraw.

[cbaggers]

@azzamsa For future projects please have a quick peek at http://blog.quicklisp.org/2015/01/getting-library-into-quicklisp.html & http://blog.quicklisp.org/2015/01/some-problems-when-adding-libraries-to.html

It's a few small tasks but they make a world of difference :)

[guicho271828]

@xach @quicklisp , ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md #1103 should greatly reduce this type of work. Have a try?

[cbaggers]

@azzamsa If you use quickproject most of it is done for you. Again it's a tiny amount of effort, after you have done it a few times it will take at most 5 minutes.

[azzamsa]

@cbaggers You mean, it is better for me to package sdraw with the policy of quicklisp, so I can ask Quicklisp maintainer to consider to include that package in next quicklisp release ?

[aesyondu]

For the second problem, I can ask the license to the author for you.

But I think draw-cons-tree already included in Quicklisp relase, so I can use this package which has the same functionality as Sdraw.

For beginners like me desperate to know how this person made draw-cons-tree work:

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :draw-cons-tree)
CL-USER> (draw-cons-tree:draw-tree '(1 2 3))

Next step could be adding (ql:quickload :draw-cons-tree) to .emacs.d/init.el, or where the emacs init file is. Unfortunately this doesn't work and I don't know how to do that yet.

[phoe]

I don't think you want to add initialization code for Common Lisp into Emacs configuration files.

It's not an issue for Quicklisp discussion though; you might want to join #lisp on Freenode or the Lisp Discord server for some beginner guidance for dealing with Common Lisp.