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Quicklisp is great, it's the defacto standard, but compared to OCICL it kinda feels ancient. There's also CLPM, but last time I checked it was broken by a combination of dead links and missing functions.

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Last time I checked quicklisp also didn’t support https and doesn’t do any signature checking.

Indeed, while you can use ql-https for, well, HTTPS, it's not the easiest thing to install (especially if you want to put everything somewhere else than ~/common-lisp/) and adding other distributions (like, say, Ultralisp) is a bit finicky.

Quicklisp still doesn't support HTTPS, which is apparently also necessary to do signature check.

Use HTTPS instead of HTTP - https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167

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