Please consider dropping phemlock

[npatrick04]

Doing a search for hemlock, I came up with the following...

CL-USER> (ql:system-apropos "hemlock")
#<SYSTEM hemlock / phemlock-20120909-cvs / quicklisp 2013-10-03>
#<SYSTEM hemlock.base / hemlock-20120909-git / quicklisp 2013-10-03>
#<SYSTEM hemlock.clx / hemlock-20120909-git / quicklisp 2013-10-03>
#<SYSTEM hemlock.qt / hemlock-20120909-git / quicklisp 2013-10-03>
#<SYSTEM hemlock.tty / hemlock-20120909-git / quicklisp 2013-10-03>

The first option seems reasonable enough, however it is the only hemlock related repository based on the Hemlock cvs repo. Per the project download page, http://www.cons.org/cmucl/download.html the cvs repo is availabe but deprecated with all new development happening in the git repository.

I don't think the CVS repository needs to be easily available via Quicklisp. If someone wants to do a bit of archeology, they ought to get it by a different channel.

[quicklisp]

Does this present a problem of some kind?

[npatrick04]

It was for me. I spent a couple weeks poking at the code from the old version before discovering the disparity between the packages. I wouldn't call it time wasted, but it's a not obvious that the first entry above is from 2002 where the others are from 2012.

The hemlock.base, .clx, .qt and .tty entries are all direct descendants of the phemlock CVS repository. It seems odd to have an entry for it when it is only there because it marks the project departure from CVS to git.