Re: How to depend on a system optionally?

Nikodemus Siivola <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2009 15:55:44 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/5/18 Robert Goldman <[email protected]>:
> Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
>> I've read several times that it's a head ache to configure optional
>> dependencies with ASDF.
>>
>> How true is that? Could we perhaps provide another clause
>> :OPTIONALLY-DEPEND-ON in DEFSYSTEM which would load a system only if
>> available?

Doesn't :WEAKLY-DEPENDS-ON do what you want?

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

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