If you are instead interested in deploying an existing application that uses Radiance on one of your servers, you can take a short-cut that doesn't require you to set up a development environment. You can use Radiance's automatic bootstrapper to easily create a working setup. All you'll need is a capable Common Lisp implementation.
On Linux using SBCL, starting the installation would look as follows:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shirakumo/radiance-bootstrap/master/bin/radiance-bootstrap.lisp
sbcl --script radiance-bootstrap.lisp
The bootstrapper will take care of seting up a Radiance distribution for you in a directory of your choice. Once it is done, you can download and extract the source files of the applications you want to use to their own subdirectories in modules/. Then simply run the launcher file mentioned at the end of the bootstrap and you're all set.
You might also want to read Part 7 of the in-depth tutorial, which explains the setup process in a bit more detail.
If you don't know of any applications yet, Shirakumo provides a few open-source ones that you can simply install and use right away:
- Filebox - A simple, personal file storage system.
- Keyword-Reviews - An intentionally primitive review site.
- Plaster - A paste service using the powerful CodeMirror editor.
- Purplish - A modern imageboard.
- Reader - A simple blogging platform.