Alexandria dependency

[lehitoskin]

Alexandria is listed as a dependency in BUILD, so I tried cloning it, but I get this error:

Cloning into 'alexandria'...
fatal: unable to connect to common-lisp.net:
common-lisp.net[0: 148.251.248.130]: errno=Connection refused
common-lisp.net[1: 2a01:4f8:200:4310::30]: errno=Network is unreachable

Is there an alternate location that it could be downloaded from? The repository has been unreachable for months now, so I can't even attempt a build even if I wanted to.

[avodonosov]

This will work:
git clone https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/alexandria/alexandria.git

(Unfortunately the repository addresses have changed with common-lisp.net infrastructure upgrade).

BTW, I would recommend using Quicklisp to acquire lisp libraries, instead of clonning them.

[lehitoskin]

Thank you! Perhaps this could could be reflected in the BUILD file as well...?

[avodonosov]

But the BUILD says: "Required systems, available via Quicklisp". As I said too, Quicklisp is the most convenient way to get libraries. See http://quicklisp.org

[lehitoskin]

I feel that, but BUILD also says you need to put all these packages in the Mezzano source directory, which doesn't scream "Use the quicklisp package manager!". Giving a (broken) git link with the prior instruction to put that package somewhere specific makes it sound like the way the maintainers want me to go about it is to, uh, use the link they gave me.

[avodonosov]

Ah, yes. I didn't read BUILD that far - I haven't used Mezzano (yet), just watching this repo and saw your issue. So, probably BUILD should be updated with the new alexandria git link.