[tmtvl]

I think OCICL will meet your expectations more readily than Quicklisp. QL does things more the CPAN way (think Gems if you're more into Ruby than Perl).

> a baked in way to run some sort of unit test suite. Have dozens of options if you want, but what is the "cargo test"?

That actually is ASDF, to be more specific:

  (asdf:test-system system &rest keys &key force force-not verbose version &allow-other-keys)

Although if we're honest, the real way to run a test suite in CL is to open the REPL, load your system, and just type something like (run-test-suite).

[phtrivier]

That actually seems great ! My understanding is that it has to wrap ASDF package, so is there a risk of trying to find a well known lib, but not finding it because the authors refuse to create a ocicl package for some complex political reason (or sheer lazyness ?)

[tmtvl]

That doesn't seem likely, the packages are part of OCICL, so it's more likely to have the opposite problem: finding some obscure package you want to try out but which isn't in OCICL.