Re: XCVB, a replacement for ASDF

If you'd like assistance in packaging this, I'd love to help.

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On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Robert Goldman <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Attila Lendvai wrote:
>>> Also, if you know other people I should be talking to regarding this
>>> topic, or webpages or papers I should have read, please point me to
>>> them.
>>
>> one more thing about .asd symlinking. i still remember the time  
>> when i
>> managed to get out of the thought-trap advertised by asdf to use
>> symlinks to configure what's in my *central-registry*.
>> creating/updating symlinks is a pain compared to a 10-liner lisp code
>> that scans a directory and sets up the registry. since then i've
>> forgotten symlinks and never missed them.
>
> We do something like that at my company.  I started by writing an asd
> file search function, that groveled over directories to find places
> where there were .asd files and add them to asdf:*central-registry*.
> Then my colleague, John Maraist, wrote some macros, that I've tinkered
> with, to allow you to define configurations like your workspaces.
>
> Since we work on multiple lisp-based projects concurrently, and must
> deal with different versions of libraries "live" on different  
> projects,
> this kind of facility is essential for us, and the single central
> link-farm simply doesn't work.
>
> I'll see about putting this together in some reasonably packaged way  
> and
> making it available if there's general interest.
>
> Best,
> R
>
>
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