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ABCL-CONTRIB
============

The contributions to Armed Bear constitute Common Lisp only code that
is potentially useful for system construction and distribution.

As such, these contributions have varying license terms which the end
user needs to accept on her own terms.  Please see the licensing
metadata as expressed in the ASDF definitions for the status of your
usage.

quicklisp-abcl

    Loads and installs the Quicklisp library manager from the network
    if not locally present.

abcl-asdf 

    ABCL specific extensions to ASDF, including resolution of binary
    JVM artifacts cached from the network according to Maven metadata
    with the derived transitive relationships.
    

asdf-jar

    Package ASDF system definitions into JVM artifacts for
    distribution

jss
    
    A higher-order, more Lisp oriented interface for constructing Lisp
    interfaces to existing binary code libraries available for the JVM
    built on the primitives provided by the JAVA package.  Used in the
    [lsw2][] Semantic Web package for dealing with OWL2 ontologies in
    RDF(S) and other notations.
    
[lsw2]: https://github.com/alanruttenberg/lsw2/
    
jfli

    The "original" higher-order JVM interface descended from Rich
    Hickey's work on the JVM before Clojure.  This implementation
    currently uses a fork of the public [JFLI][] API that uses the
    java interop of the ABCL JAVA package instead of the JNI
    interface.
    
[jfli]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfli/
   
mvn

    A collection of various useful JVM artifacts downloaded and cached
    by the Aether Maven connector.  Requires the maven-3.0.3
    executable "mvn" (or "mvn.bat" under MSFT Windows) to be in the
    current processes's path. These artifacts load the binary
    artifacts necessary in the current JVM process, 

    
    mvn currently includes:
    
    jna
        JNA provides an the ability to dynamically link to shared
        executables on the host platform, needed by CFFI.

    log4j
        An example of a dependency without an explicit version.

abcl-introspect

    Advanced introspection of Java and Lisp runtime classes
    representation.

abcl-build

    The ABCL build system plus associated utilities for manipulating
    external tools via UIOP.

named-readtables
    (BSD Licensed)
    From <https://github.com/melisgl/named-readtables>:

    NAMED-READTABLES is a library that provides a namespace for
    readtables akin to the already-existing namespace of packages. In
    particular:

    - you can associate readtables with names, and retrieve
      readtables by names;

    - you can associate source files with readtable names, and be
      sure that the right readtable is active when compiling/loading
      the file;

    - similiarly, your development environment now has a chance to
      automatically determine what readtable should be active while
      processing source forms on interactive commands. (E.g. think of
      `C-c C-c` in Slime (yet to be done))


# Colophon

     Mark <evenson.not.org@gmail.com>
     Created:  2011-09-11
     Revised:  2017-06-11
     <> abcl:documents <abcl.org/release/1.5.0/#abcl-contrib.jar> .