Questions of clarification:
1. Are you asking how to tell ASDF to slurp all the data files *without
listing them explicitly*?
2. What do you mean by "at once"? Do you mean pull them all in a single
operation (e.g., by appending them all to a single file and then loading
that file)? Or do you just mean "I would like to be able to write a
single s-expression to load all these files"?
TBQH, I would be tempted to just do:
ls data/*.lisp | perl -ne 'chomp; print("(:file \"$_\")\n");'
In order to get a set of lines I could include in my system definition
(if you hate perl, you could probably use sed and awk; I've never
mastered these). I.e., what's so bad about having to list the files
explicitly? One could even use a `makefile` to automate this process.
Or, if you wanted to do this purely in CL, I suppose you could write a
"meta-ASDF" operation that would generate the ASDF `defsystem`. That
seems like way too much work, though.
On 30 Nov 2025, at 5:20, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
Hello parenthetically unchallenged friends!
Suppose I have a library that is structured as
src/
code.lisp
pkg.lisp
stuff.lisp
data/
data-file-1.lisp
data-file-2.lisp
data-file-3.lisp
...
data-file-3-point-14-godzillion.lisp
Actually, the data folder could be anywhere.
How do I tell ASDF (or similar) to just slurp in all the data files at
once? I know it's doable, but maybe someone knows of a better way.
Thanks
Marco
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