Common Lisp ANSI compliance test suite

Introduction

This test suite - largely created by P. F. Dietz - started in the GCL (GNU Common Lisp) repository. Since its inception many CL implementors have come to use it to test compliance of their implementations.

Recent maintenance and extension of the test suite within the GCL repository has come to a halt. Because of the important position the test has come to fullfil, it would really be a loss if things stayed that way.

With the creation of this project, we hope to create a platform for discussion of the ansi standard as well as compliance to it. The test suite serves as a sound basis to record outcomes of such discussions.

Please consult the commit logs to understand the deviation of the original project.

Project aims

• A tool for testing compliance
  making a tool which developers can depend upon as a stand alone project
• A platform for discussion
  of the ansi specification and ways to implement it
• Tools to periodically automatically run the tests,
  saving and or distributing results, allowing automated monitoring and aiding analysis of results
• Extend the current test suite
  in a way which allows for easy integration with any testing implementors want to do regarding their own language extentions

How?

Everybody interested in the above - especially implementors of Common Lisp implementations [not limited to Open Source implementations] is invited to join the developers mailing list.

Obtaining the code

You can get the code from the repository (the project doesn't do distribution tarballs):

 $ git clone https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ansi-test/ansi-test.git

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