Imagine Common Lisp's CPAN variant is down and nobody cares
Javier asks in his post <1152957974.751393.130630@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> on comp.lang.lisp what's happening to cliki.net. The site is down.
And about two days later there's no information in the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp or on Planet Lisp. No blog mentions anything.
It's like nobody really cares. But cliki.net is heavily used for "Common Lisp's answer to CPAN", ASDF-Install.
I'm guessing there are just some technical problems and danb has enough to do to fix it. So I don't want to critize him or anyone else who is helping to fix the problem, instead of writing about it in his blog or on the news.
But it's still very strange. A central point of the community is out of order. And nobody cares.
That's sad.
Labels: Lisp
posted by Stefan Scholl at
13:29
6 Comments:
It seems to be up over here..
I am so used to cliki being down for a day or two that i don't think it is something worth talking about. If it was the first time, maybe, but this downtime was just "another one". It always goes up sooner or later ;)
No Mirrors?
I care! However, I didn't see the point in saying anything — I know it'll come back up at some point, and in the mean time I'm routing around it, not using ASDF-install.
For mirrors we'd need a central lookup service, or a local configuration that would need to be changed by hand.
We care, it's just that unlike all the other computer nerds using their totally square programming languages, Lisp hackers do stuff on the weekends. As RevAaron put it: "Lisp conjures up images of hippy coders, drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp fueled by LSD."
"Nobody cares" wasn't meant as "nobody cares to fix it". It was meant as "Why is there no outcry?"
Coming back to the title of the post: Imagine what would happen when the real CPAN was down.
You'd see postings in many weblogs, links on reddit, discussions(??) on Slashdot, flamewars on Usenet.
But when Cliki is down you just get one person asking on comp.lang.lisp, with no helpful answer for a few days.
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