From: ··········@gmail.com
Subject: package
Date: 
Message-ID: <1177691338.855486.16830@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
Hello geeks,

I trying to load one library, which is giving the following error:-

Error: Package "user" does not exist.  Use defpackage to create new
packages

have anyone seen this error? any clue ?

i have used this library many times before but it never given me this
error. suddenly, it start giving this error, i m not getting it.

thanks in advance.

-Tushar

From: jayessay
Subject: Re: package
Date: 
Message-ID: <m3fy6lg38n.fsf@sirius.goldenthreadtech.com>
···········@gmail.com" <··········@gmail.com> writes:


> Error: Package "user" does not exist.  Use defpackage to create new
> packages
> 
> have anyone seen this error? any clue ?

It's exactly what it says: There is an attempt to access a package
denoted by "user" (is it really this or actually "USER"?).  :user is a
typical (but not standard) nickname for the standard package
:common-lisp-user (which has a standard nickname of :cl-user).

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/11_abb.htm


> i have used this library many times before but it never given me this
> error. suddenly, it start giving this error, i m not getting it.

Switched implementations lately?


/Jon

-- 
'j' - a n t h o n y at romeo/charley/november com
From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: package
Date: 
Message-ID: <87mz0tn3r9.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com>
···········@gmail.com" <··········@gmail.com> writes:
> I trying to load one library, which is giving the following error:-
>
> Error: Package "user" does not exist.  Use defpackage to create new
> packages
>
> have anyone seen this error? any clue ?

This must be an old library.  Before the finalization of the Common
Lisp standard, the package COMMON-LISP-USER was named USER.  You can
either create a new package named USER:

(defpackage "USER" (:use "CL"))

or add an nickname to the COMMON-LISP-USER package:

(rename-package (find-package "COMMON-LISP-USER")
                "COMMON-LISP-USER ; we don't change the name
                ;; but we add a nickname:
                (cons "USER" (package-nicknames "COMMON-LISP-USER)))

     

> i have used this library many times before but it never given me this
> error. suddenly, it start giving this error, i m not getting it.

Then perhaps you are missing loading a file defining the USER package,
or you are using now in a different environment (eg different
*FEATURES*) which makes it use the USER package now.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

"What is this talk of "release"?  Klingons do not make software
"releases".  Our software "escapes" leaving a bloody trail of
designers and quality assurance people in its wake."