Quicklisp is definitely awesome - CL is a million times better with it. You don't need to use Quicklisp to use Qi, but you can definitely use them together. Th

Quicklisp is definitely awesome - CL is a million times better with it. You don't need to use Quicklisp to use Qi, but you can definitely use them together. The same is true for cl-project (which I really like). The biggest use-case in mind was the ability to specify dependency versions and custom dependencies that aren't in quicklisp (pulling from a private git repo was my use-case; someone added support for mercurial recently).