Seeds

This is a simple library that intends to make it convenient to create new projects or modules from the REPL in order to quickly test out new ideas (“seeds”). It is built on top of Quickproject.

Add the following (modify as necessary) to your lisp init file to load the library and set up default values. Ideally ASDF should be set up to scan the seed directory for ASD files.

(require :seeds)

(setf seeds:*seed-directory* "/home/user/lisp/seeds/"
      seeds:*seed-template-directory* "/home/user/lisp/seed-templates/"
      seeds:*depends-on* '(:alexandria)
      seeds:*default-template* :basic)

Example:

Assume we have our templates set up like this:

 seed-templates/
   basic/
     system.asd
     application.lisp
   cli-app/
     ...
   web-app/
     ...

Then calling

(seeds:create-seed "foo" :template :basic)

will create a new project called “foo” in our seed directory. The project can be moved elsewhere later if it turns out to be useful or deleted if it didn’t work out.

The result would look like this:

 seeds/
   foo/               * (created)
     foo.asd          * (created)
     foo.lisp         * (created)