A few years ago I wrote about how I make small Common Lisp projects. With the availability of Quicklisp and ASDF2, my process has changed quite a bit. Here's what I do lately. Get a comfortable environment (done only once, not once per project). First, as part of setting up my CL environment, I install Quicklisp and add it to my SBCL startup file. That means downloading quicklisp.lisp and then run