Le Sursis 0.1.1 Released

Le Sursis is a project to facilitate CGI programming in Common Lisp. I use CLISP, so it will always be supported. However, adding support for other Lisps should be trivial, as it only uses one non-standard function (system::getenv to get the environmental variables necessary to support the CGI standard).

You can get it via http (le-sursis-0.1.1.tgz) or via ftp (le-sursis-0.1.1.tgz).

Le Sursis nominally stands for Sane and Usable Response to Scripting Internet Sites. Sursis is a French word which means "reprieve," as in "a reprieve from Perl." It is, unfortunately, only a reprieve, as it will almost certainly be necessary to use Perl the next time you have to work on someone else's script. But at least you can enjoy using Lisp while you can!

Le Sursis is also the title of a wonderful book by Jean-Paul Sartre, one of my favorite authors. It is the second book in the three part series Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Paths to Freedom). As Le Sursis is Free Software, I think this makes the name even more appropriate.

Of course! It is covered by the GNU GPL. If you have a compelling reason why it should be released under the LGPL, feel free to tell me (Tom Burdick <noc@users.sourceforge.net>), but you'll want to read "Why you should not use the Library GPL for your next Library" first.

0.1

Basic support for GET queries on CLISP.

0.2

Support for GET and PUT queries. Possible support for other Lisp systems.

1.0

Full support for the CGI spec. Support for several Lisp systems, possibly including Scheme or other dialects. Optimizations. Possibly other features.

Of course, there will be releases between 0.2 and 1.0 (probably many). I'd love to include Scheme support, preferably for Guile, but at the moment it doesn't support byte-compilation or saving memory images or anything, so I'll have to look at other, faster, systems.

Absolutely! I would love patches to add support for whatever Lisp system you use--whether that's another CL or Scheme or something else--or even to add real features. Once I get a chance to learn how to put code into and update code in CVS, I'll keep it in there. And I'll be making frequent releases so you can keep up on improvements.