Problems with McCLIM (Common Lisp)

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Hi Guix,

I’d like to play with McCLIM, but I don’t know enough about Common Lisp
to understand how to launch the examples.

Here’s what I’ve done:

    guix install sbcl sbcl-mcclim sbcl-slime-swank

This is the first question, actually: if I don’t manually install
sbcl-slime-swank I get errors complaining about swank being absent.
Should sbcl-mcclim propagate sbcl-slime-swank?

Then I started the sbcl REPL and input this:

    (require :asdf)   ; I don’t know why I need this
    (require :mcclim)

This seems to compile Swank, prints a whole bunch of warnings about
invalid version strings in McCLIM and returns me to the REPL.

Then I tried

    (require :clim-examples)

but it fails with “Don't know how to REQUIRE CLIM-EXAMPLES.”.  So I
loaded the asd file manually:

    (load "/home/rekado/.guix-profile/share/common-lisp/sbcl-source/mcclim/Examples/clim-examples.asd")

Now at least clim-examples appears to be found:

   (asdf:load-system "clim-examples")

This fails with this error:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
debugger invoked on a ASDF/FIND-COMPONENT:MISSING-DEPENDENCY in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10009C8083}>:
  Component #:MCCLIM-LAYOUTS/TAB not found, required by
  #<SYSTEM "clim-examples">
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I see that “lib/sbcl/mcclim-layouts-tab.asd” exists, but loading it
doesn’t help.

At this point it should be clear that I don’t know what I’m doing.  Is
it expected that Common Lisp packages installed with Guix behave this
way…?

-- 
Ricardo