Re: Re: [Portableaserve-discuss] ASDF system for portable allegroserve on CMUCL

Am Don, 2002-07-04 um 04.35 schrieb Daniel Barlow:
> 
> What an exciting collection of subject taglines we're going to collect
> here ...
> 
> John DeSoi <desoi <at> mac.com> writes:
> > Since ASDF is a single small file, I would also like to propose
> > including it the distribution (it can just be ignored if a local
> 
> Wearing my asdf maintainer hat I'd be happy to see this happen, but
> I am reluctant to end up in the position that mk-defsystem has been in
> at times, with several out-of-sync versions of it floating around
> different parts of the net.  So, all I'll say is: please feed back 
> bug reports instead of hacking locally, and if you must hack locally
> (e.g. because I am being a lazy slacker and not responding to email)
> do something to the file to make it obvious it's changed.  
> 
> Of course, if you want to hack locally and send me nice diffs that I
> can merge, I'll be delighted.  I'm just concerned about distributed
> divergent versions.

Ok - I think we will then include ASDF into the PAServe CVS.

If we do that we could bite the bullet and switch to only ASDF as
Defsystem facility (leaving out MK:Defsystem and LW-Defsystem). 

I personally do not see any alternative to ASDF. MK:Defsystem 4 looks
much to complicated to me (I prefer a single-file Defsystem facility).

To the question where to add it: I would propose to create a "contrib"