Re: cclan-get: fetch and install vn-cclan packages

David Lichteblau <[email protected]> writes:

> | cclan-get fetches and installs vn-cclan packages from local or remote
> | repositories.

(using portableaserve, for anyone who was wondering and hadn't checked
the URL)

Very neat.  I'm not sure what you're doing with dependencies, though.
Personally I would do something like (handwavey pseudocode follows)

(defun get-system (name operation)
   (download-and-copy-system-somewhere name)
   (handler-bind
      ((asdf:missing-component (c)
           (when (null (asdf:missing-parent c))
             ;; nil parent indicates the component is a system
             (get-system (asdf:missing-requires c))
             (invoke-restart 'retry-component))))
      (asdf:operate operation name)))

i.e. let asdf flag up the missing dependencies as and when it finds them.

fwiw, I'm happy with your "conventions", because that's the format
that my cvs-tag and make-tar-file functions (in cclan.lisp, in the
same place as asdf) already use :-)

As to the more general issue: how much of a problem is it really to
mandate that the tarball name is the same as (or mechanically
derivable from) the asdf system name?  I've been saying all along that
it should be, so ...


-dan

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