About
About Gravity Lensing
A package registry and ecosystem for Common Lisp.
What is Gravity Lensing?
Gravity Lensing is a package registry for Common Lisp. It indexes packages from the Quicklisp ecosystem and presents them in a searchable, browsable interface. Think of it as the central hub where Common Lisp libraries orbit, ready to be discovered and pulled into your projects.
What is area51?
area51 is a command-line package manager for Common Lisp. It resolves dependencies, locks versions, and manages your project's packages locally. If Gravity Lensing is the registry in the sky, area51 is the ground station on your machine.
How they work together
Gravity Lensing hosts and indexes packages. area51 queries Gravity Lensing to find, download, and manage them on your machine. You search and browse on Gravity Lensing; you install and build with area51.
Why "Gravity Lensing"?
The name comes from gravitational lensing — a black hole's gravity bends light to reveal what lies beyond. Many of today's programming languages have been influenced by Lisp. Lisp is gravity itself. The brilliant libraries created by the great Lisp Aliens orbit within Lisp's gravitational field. We named it Gravity Lensing so you can find Common Lisp packages through the lens of that gravity.
Open source
Both Gravity Lensing and area51 are open source. Package data is sourced from Quicklisp. Contributions are welcome.