Re: ASDF on MSWin

Hi Daniel,

I'm not sure why I dropped this by the wayside and will try to pick it  
up and toss it about this week.

regards,

On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Daniel Herring wrote:

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> ASDF support on MSWin is patchy.  While CLisp treats MS shortcut  
> files as
> symlinks, many other lisps do not.  Since shortcuts don't work, some
> people end up adding sysdef-subdir-search to
> *system-definition-search-functions* (see cliki).
>
>
> In 2007, there was a patch for .lnk files; but it was never committed.
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=87ir98pisj.fsf%40cantab.net&forum_name=cclan-list
>
> The patch (against 1.102) is still available at
> http://www.lichteblau.com/blubba/shortcut/
>
> It seems to apply cleanly to current ASDF; but my MSWin box isn't
> available for testing at the moment.
>
> Is there any chance of getting this vetted and into mainline ASDF?
>
> Thanks,