Re: Running Lisp tests

This should be straightforward.  You would catch a `missing-component` 
error whose `missing-requires` is equal to `(asdf:coerce-name "prove")` 
(the `coerce-name` is *probably* unnecessary), and do the `ql:install` 
as needed and then apply the `retry` restart.

On 11 Jun 2019, at 9:43, Mark Evenson wrote:

>> On Jun 11, 2019, at 14:05, Robert P. Goldman <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> If you prefer, I believe you could bundle prove to avoid the 
>> Quicklisp dependency, perhaps as a git submodule…
>
> It is certainly a way forward to consider bundling PROVE, but since 
> ABCL
> already has a mechanism to install Quicklisp from the network by using 
> its
> unique capability to CL:OPEN a given URI, the better way forward might 
> be:
>
>    0) improve the handler for the condition to introspect the message 
> from the
>       condition signalled via ASDF
>
>    1) introspect the existence of Quicklisp, installing if not present
>
>     (require :abcl-contrib)
>     (asdf:load-system :quicklisp-abcl)
>
>    2) then load and execute ABCL/TEST/ANSI/COMPILED
>     (asdf:test-system :abcl/test/ansi/compile)
>
> As a first stab, I will remove the reference to PROVE in the abcl.asd
> definition, as this shouldn’t be happening as the :DEPENDS-ON 
> (:PROVE) stanza
> is a sibling dependency tree as near as I can tell.  I should swag 
> [Ionna’s
> code][asd-graph] to visualize the dependencies to see if this is 
> indeed the
> case.
>
> In any event, I *really8* don’t want to mess with git submodules: 
> I’d add a “vendor”
> directory before submitting to that mess of a lack of engineering…
>
>
> [asd-graph]: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/idimitriou/asd-graph
>
> -- 
> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before but there 
> is nothing
> to compare to it now."