Re: How to create a standalone GNU/Linux binary using SBCL?

Emre Sevinc <emres@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Christophe Rhodes <csr21@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> preferably, you distribute your application as remotely-installable
>> source code, unless you actually have a reason not to.)
>
> What is remotely-installable source code? I don't have the intention
> to close the source of course, can you explain that concept a little
> bit more?

Rather than distribute your application as one monolithic binary with
all dependencies included, you could put a source tarball up on the
web, write a cliki page for your application, and then let your users
install your application themselves (and its dependencies) using
whatever lisp they already have by doing (asdf-install:install
:yourapp). This is a bit like Debian's package management, only
somewhat more decentralised: it does, however, depend on your users
being apt enough to install a lisp first.

> What is it exactly and what are the advantages of remotely-installable
> source code? Any URLs talking about that?

<http://www.cliki.net/asdf-install> has a little more information.
The advantage to you is that you don't have to deal too much with
distribution issues, such as finding hosting space and bandwidth for a
10MB-or-so tarball (although SBCL core files do end up at around 40Mb,
they compress fairly well :-); advantages to the rest of the world
include that they are not limited to platforms you the application
writer can compile for, and they don't need to download a huge binary
-- just a smallish set of sources.

Christophe
.

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