On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: > Right now, I find just getting the new CL-based tools to work everywhere > is a slog. I've been spending all of my available ASDF time lately > wrestling with added complexities that are "meta" to ASDF, leaving me > with no time to work on ASDF itself. I'm not willing to add more > cognitive burden or overhead. > > Sorry -- I appreciate your work to improve the process, Kambiz, but ASDF > has just turned, against my will, into an laboratory for developing a > CL-based scripting system. I am absolutely unwilling to see it turn > into a testing ground for the bleeding edge of distributed version > control, as well. > I apologize for the trouble. It's notably my fault for not testing on Mac and Windows.
But note that the need to download plenty of up-to-date libraries for testing purposes existed before the minimakefile merge. For instance, test-program always depended on lisp-invocation, test-encodings depended on asdf-encodings, etc. — though the policy was to let the test "succeed" with a warning if the dependency was not found. Similarly, the release script asdf-builder depended on inferior-shell and all its transitive dependencies, even before the current refactoring. The new asdf-tools only makes apparent early dependencies that were previously latent in the asdf test and release toolchain — some of them since ASDF 2 days, most of them since the initial ASDF 3 prerelease (2.27). I updated the README to explain that you may need to make ext again after you update ASDF. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org I too am into martial arts: pistol shooting, rifle shooting, cannon shooting, flame throwing, grenade launching, missile firing, atom bombing...
