Hi!

To be honest, a “data” directory doesn't sound like a build time dependency, 
but who knows.

Yours aye

Svante

Am 1. Dezember 2025 03:59:19 MEZ schrieb "Faré" <[email protected]>:
>On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM Scott L. Burson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Why use ASDF?  It's a 2-liner in CL:
>>
>> (dolist (f (directory ".../data/"))
>>   (load f))
>>
>This use of directory is not portable at all, unlike
>uiop:directory-files (UIOP being part of ASDF).
>Also, ASDF will load your files once and only once as needed, enforce
>load dependency order both ways, and integrate with the rest of your
>build and other related tools.
>
>—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
>“Faré's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently useful CL build
>system is an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow non-portable
>implementation of a fraction of ASDF much larger than what it takes to
>just use ASDF.” [Including ASDF]

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