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+(defsystem "alexandria"
+  :version "1.0.0"
+  :licence "Public Domain / 0-clause MIT"
+  :description "Alexandria is a collection of portable public domain utilities."
+  :author "Nikodemus Siivola and others."
+  :long-description
+  "Alexandria is a project and a library.
+
+As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and improve
+portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather
+conservative aesthetic.
+
+As a library Alexandria is one of the means by which the project strives for
+its goals.
+
+Alexandria is a collection of portable public domain utilities that meet
+the following constraints:
+
+ * Utilities, not extensions: Alexandria will not contain conceptual
+   extensions to Common Lisp, instead limiting itself to tools and utilities
+   that fit well within the framework of standard ANSI Common Lisp.
+   Test-frameworks, system definitions, logging facilities, serialization
+   layers, etc. are all outside the scope of Alexandria as a library, though
+   well within the scope of Alexandria as a project.
+
+ * Conservative: Alexandria limits itself to what project members consider
+   conservative utilities. Alexandria does not and will not include anaphoric
+   constructs, loop-like binding macros, etc.
+   Also, its exported symbols are being imported by many other packages
+   already, so each new export carries the danger of causing conflicts.
+
+ * Portable: Alexandria limits itself to portable parts of Common Lisp. Even
+   apparently conservative and useful functions remain outside the scope of
+   Alexandria if they cannot be implemented portably. Portability is here
+   defined as portable within a conforming implementation: implementation bugs
+   are not considered portability issues.
+
+ * Team player: Alexandria will not (initially, at least) subsume or provide
+   functionality for which good-quality special-purpose packages exist, like
+   split-sequence. Instead, third party packages such as that may be
+   \"blessed\"."
+  :components
+  ((:static-file "LICENCE")
+   (:static-file "tests.lisp")
+   (:file "package")
+   (:file "definitions" :depends-on ("package"))
+   (:file "binding" :depends-on ("package"))
+   (:file "strings" :depends-on ("package"))
+   (:file "conditions" :depends-on ("package"))
+   (:file "io" :depends-on ("package" "macros" "lists" "types"))
+   (:file "macros" :depends-on ("package" "strings" "symbols"))
+   (:file "hash-tables" :depends-on ("package" "macros"))
+   (:file "control-flow" :depends-on ("package" "definitions" "macros"))
+   (:file "symbols" :depends-on ("package"))
+   (:file "functions" :depends-on ("package" "symbols" "macros"))
+   (:file "lists" :depends-on ("package" "functions"))
+   (:file "types" :depends-on ("package" "symbols" "lists"))
+   (:file "arrays" :depends-on ("package" "types"))
+   (:file "sequences" :depends-on ("package" "lists" "types"))
+   (:file "numbers" :depends-on ("package" "sequences"))
+   (:file "features" :depends-on ("package" "control-flow")))
+  :in-order-to ((test-op (test-op "alexandria-tests"))))