How can I get aserve installed on my mac and load it within lispbox-0.7?

Question

I am on Chapter 26 of "Practical Common Lisp" (excellent book). I am trying to get to this, downloaded from https://github.com/Apress/practical-common-lisp:

CL-USER> (defpackage :com.gigamonkeys.web
       (:use :cl :net.aserve :com.gigamonkeys.html))

which gives this error:

(There is no package named "NET.ASERVE" .
   [Condition of type CCL::NO-SUCH-PACKAGE])

After cloning https://github.com/franzinc/aserve.git I ran:

CL-USER> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :aserve)

but got error:

There is no package named "EXCL" .
   [Condition of type CCL::NO-SUCH-PACKAGE]

I could not find package EXCL so I installed portableaserve and ran:

CL-USER> (load "~/GitHub/portableaserve/INSTALL.lisp")

but again got:

there is no package named "EXCL" .
   [Condition of type CCL::NO-SUCH-PACKAGE]

Would someone know how to install allegroserve, including EXCL, within lispbox-0.7 on a mac to run the above defpackage command?

Answer 1

Lisp-in-a-box, while featuring prominently in Practical Common Lisp, is not maintained anymore for quite some years now (the book is from 2005).

I'd recommend using Portacle as a complete preconfigured environment.

This comes with Quicklisp, so you can just (ql:quickload "aserve") then.