Re: asdf-install installs more than you ask for

Gary King <[email protected]> writes:

> Then suppose I start fresh and ASDF-Install lift. Currently,
>
> 1. the LIFT package is downloaded
> 2. LIFT tries to find moptilities.asd and fails so it is also downloaded
> 3. moptiliites is compiled and loaded
> 4. moptilities-test is compiled and loaded
> 5. lift is compiled and loaded
> 6. lift-test is compiled and loaded
>
> I think that steps 4 and 6 should not be done. The person didn't want
> to install lift-tests or moptilities-tests. If a system builder wants
> to make sure that tests get run, then I think that both of the main
> system definers are flexible enough to support that.

I agree---this also makes ASDF-INSTALLation of CLSQL a pain, because
it tries to compile each backend even though the necessary shared
libraries are probably not installed for all of them.

James


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