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10:38:19
kenran
Is anyone of you using the croatoan library to create simple ncurses projects? Aside from my REPL issue (opened it on the GH page) I'm struggling with the understanding of how to use it (probably from my lack of Common Lisp experience). I'd appreciate any pointers, for instance to existing projects, or also advice on how to "discover" the usage of the API interactively (using Emacs).
10:39:56
kenran
_death: I was just about to write... I discovered this right now as well. I thought these were supposed to be "just tests", but apparently there's lots to discover there. Thank you!
10:41:26
contrapunctus
kenran: you could probably contribute some documentation based on it. See https://diataxis.fr if you decide to.
10:45:29
kenran
I'm wondering how much of my failure to get started can be attributed to missing docs though, versus just lacking familiarity with Common Lisp and the ecosystem on my part. I assume most (all?) of it is the latter :) for instance, I'm struggling to "run" these tests, but at least now I understand why I get errors.
10:50:36
_death
to run them you'd load system "croatoan-test", (in-package :de.anvi.croatoan.test) and call the functions (you need to start sbcl in a terminal and connect to it using slime)
10:53:15
kenran
ah ty, I was missing the croatoan-test part (hacked it to work though. The game-of-life example is a little glitchy for me (black bars appearing from time to time), but cool, something working that I can read :)