Re: asdf-install for cmucl?

 --- Edi Weitz <[email protected]> wrote: 
> OK, as promised I now have a port of ASDF-INSTALL
> for CMUCL, CLISP,
> AllegroCL, and LispWorks. It is currently available

Nice!  If you can find a cclan maintainer to give you
write access (or you already have it), please feel
free to replace/update the version of asdf-install
therein, because it's only a copy of the SBCL version
anyway

> I've also written a little tutorial for ASDF-INSTALL
> aimed at
> "newbies" which can be found at
> 
>   <http://weitz.de/asdf-install/>.

Off the top of my head:
1) I would spend less time in the introduction
apologising for the poor state of CL library
installation.  Newbies are not interested in
historical background.

(I would replace the whole paragraph starting
"Unfortunately" with something along the lines of
"Hitherto these libraries have had to be installed
manually, an often complex process.  However, many
library authors are now packaging their systems using
the new ASDF-INSTALL standard, allowing for automatic
installation on any Lisp system that supports it".  Or
something)

2) When explaining about ASDF you've said
"ASDF-INSTALL" a couple of times where I think you
really meant "ASDF"

3) The most common asdf installation problem, as
observed on #lisp IRC, is that people add directories
to the *central-registry* without the trailing #\/ on
the namestring.  I'd suggest that you add a note to
caution people that it is needed and that Weird Stuff
will happen if it's omitted.

4) if "oos" is an unintuitive name, "operate" does
exactly the same thing.  Once upon a time I had plans
to deprecate the name "oos" in favour of "operate",
but enough people seem to be using it now that I'll
never have the cnagce.  So, choose whichever you
prefer; I'll keep both.

> PS: Daniel, if I'm not mistaken there are no license
> files and
>     copyright notes in the asdf-install directory.

Same licence terms as for ASDF itself, whatever they
are (probably public domain).  It wouldn't hurt to add
somthing to that effect, no.

Thanks 


-dan


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