Wellll. You need a CL to load ASDF, don’t you? :) CLAD is minimal and barebones. You can load it from two files (just because the DEFPACKAGE is separate) and it’s there. Look ma! No ASDF! :) (Or UIOP)
But I see your point. Time to add a clad-setup.lisp file. Cheers MA On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 at 23:10, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote: > I do like the idea of CLAD, but in this case isn't there a Catch-22? You > need to configure ASDF in order to load CLAD, so you can't use CLAD to > configure ASDF, can you? > > On 3 Jun 2023, at 10:57, Marco Antoniotti wrote: > > Ahem. Shameless plug: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mantoniotti/CLAD > > Cheers > > MA > > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 5:28 PM Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote: > >> Dear Greg, >> >> Thanks for the kind words! I am not sure why I didn't see your post on >> ASDF-devel, but I didn't. And I have seen several requests for moderation, >> so the list seems live. In case my response is interesting to the group, I >> am responding to the list as well. >> >> A couple of disclaimers: (1) I haven't used Windows in more than a >> decade, and (2) I don't use these configuration files. I find I'm happier >> to keep all of my lisp configuration in lisp configuration files ( >> clinit.cl, .sbclrc, etc. -- indeed I point all of those at one single >> lisp-config.lisp file), instead of having to hunt through multiple files >> in multiple locations for this information. So take anything I say with >> more than a grain of salt (given your cardiologist approves!). >> >> That said, these config files are placed according to the XDG standard >> which... as far as I can tell only applies to linux, and not to either >> Windows or MacOS. So there's code in ASDF/UIOP that extends XDG to other >> platforms. ASDF documentation about XDG can be found here >> <https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/asdf.html#XDG-base-directory>. >> >> I don't understand Windows enough to understand this piece of text from >> the ASDF manual: >> >> Since support for querying the Windows registry is not possible to do in >> reasonable amounts of portable Common Lisp code, ASDF 3 relies on the >> environment variables that Windows usually exports, and are hopefully in >> synch with the Windows registry. If you care about the details, see >> uiop/configuration.lisp and don’t hesitate to suggest improvements. >> >> The relevant code may be found in uiop/configuration.lisp >> <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/blob/release/uiop/configuration.lisp>. >> It looks like invoking the functions uiop:xdg-config-home and >> uiop:xdg-config-pathnames might help you figure out where ASDF is >> looking. But I don't really understand the discussion about the registry >> above. I do see a bit of code that says that UIOP (and thus ASDF) look for >> configs in the value of (uiop:xdg-data-dirs "config/") -- maybe see what >> that evaluates to on your Windows box? >> >> I hope that these snippets have been helpful, and if you find the answers >> you seek, please send to me and ASDF-devel, so that the information will be >> available to others. >> >> It might be a good thing if someone with the resources would gift a >> Windows resource to the CL Foundation to hook into common-lisp.net so >> that the community doesn't have to rely on this kind of guesswork. I note >> that ASDF is no longer tested on Windows at all, since I don't have access >> to a Windows VM and even if I did, I wouldn't know how to use it (nor do I >> have the time to learn). >> >> Good luck! >> R >> >> On 2 Jun 2023, at 19:40, Greg Bennett wrote: >> >> Good evening Robert, >> >> Some longish time ago you were kind enough to help me with ASDF matters. >> I posted recently to asdf-devel, largely in the hope that you might see >> it, I confess. >> >> Web search has, so far, not been helpful, I'm afraid. >> >> I shall quite understand if you do not reply; your inbox must receive >> lots of this sort of thing. >> >> I have a test system in c:/ASDF/asdf-tests/ copied from the linux >> directory /home/gwbennett/ASDF/asdf-tests/ >> >> Under Linux in my source-registry.conf.d directory I have the file >> gb-source.conf >> with the one line (:tree "/home/gwbennett/ASDF/asdf-tests/") >> >> Then in sbcl I can issue (asdf:load-system "gb-a") and all is well. >> >> I have tried various spots for gb-source.conf under Windows, all without >> success: >> >> c:\Users\Greg\AppData\Local\config\common-lisp\source-registry.conf.d\ >> >> c:\Users\Greg\ >> >> c:\Users\Greg\AppData\ >> >> c:\Users\Greg\AppData\Local\ >> >> If I issue, old style, (push "c:/ASDF/asdf-tests/" >> asdf:*central-registry*) then all is well. >> >> Perhaps there is no place for a config file under W! >> >> Cheers >> >> Greg >> >> -- Marco Antoniotti https://dcb.disco.unimib.it
