[Openmcl-devel] asdf-install and asdf in the openmcl distributions

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Personally I have nothing against bundled stuff, but I'd rather not see 
things automatically loaded, and I'd rather not see dependencies start 
creeping in (and to some degree I think the first makes the second 
easier to ensure).

Another question is where to put bundled stuff (as opposed to the 
often-unrefined things that are in the examples directory). I suggest a 
bundles directory as a peer to examples, and add bundles to the require 
path.

Also, I nominate the defsystem.lisp that you got working as a bundle, 
and asdf sounds good to me as well.

hamilton

On Saturday, January 17, 2004, at 10:14  PM, Gary Byers wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Camille Troillard wrote:
>
>> I vote for including it too !
>> If you look at PLT Scheme, they have a way to distribute/install
>> libraries easily.  MOst of the Lisps lack this and I found it was a
>> very good idea to have it included in SBCL.  Then I was confused that
>> OpenMCL don't have these very useful tools ...
>>
>
> I'm not arguing against including this package (or anything else deemed
> to be a "useful tool") with distributions.  I do have some questions
> about doing that.
>
>   - what version of asdf-install should be included ?
>   - what else does it depend on, and what versions of those things ?
>     (I assume ASDF in this case)
>   - quite reasonably, the README file for asdf-install discusses
>     using it with SBCL.  Should a README.OpenMCL file be added,
>     that at least points people to the HTML documentation in the
>     portable version ?
>   - I'd personally agree that many people would find asdf-install
>     useful.  Exactly which things are so useful that they should
>     be bundled, and how should that be decided ?
>
> There may be simple answers to these questions, and the fact that
> I'm asking them may just indicate that I haven't thought enough
> about these issues.  If people have thought about these things,
> I'd appreciate hearing their opinions.
>
>
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