Re: ASDF and Allegro libs

Gary King wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> (I've forwarded this on to the CCLAN list too)
> 
> Off hand, I don't know of any other solution. One thing that comes to  
> mind is to create a system search plug in (I forgot what ASDF calls  
> them) so that a clause like
> 
> :depends-on (:acache :aserve ...)
> 
> would cause ASDF to issue the require command. If you're at all  
> interested in this solution, I'd be happy to make it walk and talk  
> like a duck.

I have done this for Allegro, and I made my own component type that was 
loaded by require.  I don't really think overloading depends-on is the 
right thing here, since it makes the reader guess how it will be 
interpreted.  I think it's better for the reader to look at a system def 
and see at a glance what will be loaded using require and what will be 
loaded using asdf...

Best,
R

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