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Can you expand a little on the difficulties you faced? When I tried quicklisp, the instructions in the homepage were easy to follow to install it, search packages, install them, and load them. I haven't tried making a package, or get it included in the repo. Was that where the difficulty you faced was?

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Fine to setup. But I don't understand how to reload a project after closing the REPL. More generally, too many tools to master and understand... And didn't find a simple tutorial to start with the ecosystem.

If you're talking about Quicklisp, to reload it after closing the REPL, you just need to run:

    (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")

and then you'll have the quicklisp functions available. Running:

    (ql:add-to-init-file)

will add something like that to your REPL's init file, so you'll have quicklisp available from the get-go. After that, to load a package like "cl-opengl", whether it's installed or not, you just need to do:

    (ql:quickload "cl-opengl")

This is in the homepage, under a section titled "Loading After Installation"[1].

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/#loading

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