Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement
"Robert Goldman (as rpgoldman at sift dot net)" <[email protected]>
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I should also mention that a LOT of the code in ASDF/UIOP is for portability. The CL spec, because it was written in a time when there was more variation in operating systems and file systems than there is today. So it is too weak to allow writing a system like ASDF in pure CL: it requires engaging with implementation-specific code to do anything much with the file system, and ASDF has to do A LOT with the file system. Cheers, R On 25 Jul 2025, at 19:34, Adam Weaver (as adam at cleversure dot com dot au) wrote: > On Fri, 2025-07-25 at 12:23 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote: >> >> >> ASDF is more complex than it should be (there's lots of stuff in >> there that I don't understand, and I'm the maintainer!), but the >> problem is more complex than most ASDF users think it is, too. > > Thanks RG, this is actually the question I was asking. What does ASDF > *do* other than compile & load files into an image? That's all I've > ever used it for... What killer feature does ASDF have that I am > ingorant of? > > A > > > _______________________________________________ > Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users > [email protected] > http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html