Right yeah, or you can use clpm and specifically target the versions of the thing you use. Alternatively you can vendor (copy/paste them in your repo). In CL you fo deal with per-platform thing, but generally it is isolated to some OS layer and move on
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 7:00 AM Attila Lendvai <attila.lend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I use a vanilla Quicklisp installation. For some local directory > > trees I configure ASDF to prefer those trees over the standard > > Quicklisp versions by placing text like the following in my > > $HOME/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf file: > > > > (:source-registry > > (:tree "/home/brown/toe/open-source/") > > ;; For swank.asd > > (:tree "/home/brown/local/software/source/slime/") > > :inherit-configuration) > > > +1 for this as the simplest path to the desired outcome. > > > > ./configure > > make > > sudo make install > > > > and it works! I can put the clone anywhere I want. I can change it > > anyway I want. The system doesn't fight me. > > > that system is a struggle in so many other ways (dll hell; all the > /usr/include stuff; etc...). and from all the various linux distros, > precious few can achieve the equivalent of the CL ecosystem WRT > reproducibility and fine-grained control over the versions of the > dependencies (NixOS and Guix are the ones i'm aware of). > > the seeming simplicity of that ./configure dance has an enormous cost > that only shows up when it doesn't work in apparent or in covertly > surprising ways. > > -- > • attila lendvai > • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 > -- > “In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for > or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.” > — Confucius (551–479 BC) > -- Wilfredo Velázquez-Rodríguez
