On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Faré <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that it is the very design of ASDF that a .asd file is Lisp > source code, and that we thus reuse Lisp as the language to do magic > there. What better way to load extensions in your .asd than that? > After all, you need the extension there before you even try to parse > the defsystem statement with the loaded extension.
Sometimes great power brings great responsibility and the fact that *.asd files can be any lisp becomes a burden for people wanting to port those libraries. Specially when then the library itself depends for instance on extensions that are defined in the *.asd file and not in the lisp objects themselves. I am right now thinking on software like ECL's extensions for packing libraries into monolithic FASL files or standalone programs. Juanjo -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
