Re: library distribution/management, was: macro that renames a function and records in a global list each non-local exit

With gcl 2.7.2, I believe there are small patches available for ASDF to
make it work. That's great new is the patches land. It would be great if
gcl would include that version. I tried it awhile ago and I think it
worked.  It takes a long time to build ASDF with gcl, though.

Ray

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026, 8:45 PM Robert Dodier <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM Barton Willis via Maxima-discuss
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, I didn't know about 'cl-advice'.   My understanding is that
> `cl-advice` is not included in any ANSI CL implementation.  Maybe I'll
> stick to pedestrian ways.
>
> Well, cl-advice appears to be a third party Common Lisp library, and
> available via Quicklisp. So to the extent that Quicklisp is installed,
> it is very easy to get going, something like:
>
> (ql:quickload "cl-advice")
>
> Quicklisp isn't the end of the story wrt CL library management, but I
> have found it pretty useful -- certainly an improvement on trying to
> manage that stuff by hand.
>
> Maxima pretty desperately needs a package/library management system,
> and Quicklisp or something like it would be useful ... the major
> roadblock is that GCL doesn't support ASDF or Quicklisp. At this point
> I'm in favor of pressing ahead with some kind of package system, not
> necessary involving Quicklisp, and let that be a motivation for GCL to
> get any required functionality (certainly at least ASDF) working.
>
> FWIW
>
> Robert
>
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