Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Zach Beane <[email protected]> wrote: > > I stopped updating ASDF versions when it seemed to require asdf-ecl.lisp > to work on ECL. Is the case? Can ECL get by with asdf.lisp alone? > > > Since Faré took over ASDF, ASDF has worked perfectly fine with ECL so that is > not a reason not to upgrade. However, asdf-ecl.lisp was not developed to fix > asdf.lisp, but to introduce operations that make ASDF more efficient with > ECL. > > In other words, ECL can do with asdf alone but this is undesirable. For > instance, quicklisp's reliance on 'ASDF:LOAD-OP implies loading an average of > 10 times more files than ECL's ASDF:LOAD-FASL-OP, and also a greater pressure > on the operating system, for ECL relies on native methods for loading > binaries. > > Moreover, asdf-ecl allows one to take quicklisp distribution and produce a > standalone executable, or a shared library (DLL) with one ASDF operation. > This, > which I find extremely nice, has been ported by Fare to other implementations > in a successor to asdf-ecl that I have not yet had the time to integrate in > ECL.
Does ECL include asdf-ecl already, and track each new release of ASDF? Zach _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
