Re: Getting failure on LW 6 and 7 on Mac and Linux on test-run-program

2015-05-26 Thread Faré
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Robert P. Goldman rpgold...@sift.net wrote: Here's the error: TEST ABORTED: Undefined function LISP-INVOCATION/IMPLEMENTATIONS::INVOKE-LISP-VIA-SCRIPT called with arguments (:CROSS-COMPILE NIL :LOAD /Users/rpg/lisp/asdf/test/make-hello-world.lisp :EVAL

Getting failure on LW 6 and 7 on Mac and Linux on test-run-program

2015-05-26 Thread Robert P. Goldman
Here's the error: TEST ABORTED: Undefined function LISP-INVOCATION/IMPLEMENTATIONS::INVOKE-LISP-VIA-SCRIPT called with arguments (:CROSS-COMPILE NIL :LOAD /Users/rpg/lisp/asdf/test/make-hello-world.lisp :EVAL (asdf-test::make-hello-image) :RUN-PROGRAM-ARGS (:INPUT NIL :IGNORE-ERROR-STATUS T

Re: How would you feel...

2015-05-26 Thread Faré
On Tue, May 26, 2015, 12:20 Robert P. Goldman rpgold...@sift.net wrote: About holding the release briefly while I negotiate with Xach about metadata? Xach is starting to make QL complain about systems missing AUTHOR, DESCRIPTION, and LICENSE. I'm pushing for VERSION, as well. I was

Re: Purpose of components of type :static-file?

2015-05-26 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Dave, Thanks for asking! Many systems seem to depend on files existing on the disk system near the .asd file. However, systems shouldn't depend on that, as e.g. ABCL implements the asdf :bundle-op operation, which compiles an entire system into one monolithic FASL file (which can then be

Re: How would you feel...

2015-05-26 Thread Faré
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Robert P. Goldman rpgold...@sift.net wrote: Faré wrote: Oh well, I'm torn. I think it's a good thing, but maybe incompatible enough that we should release 3.1.5 now and start a 3.2.0 branch. I don't think this counts as incompatible, since it would only be a

Purpose of components of type :static-file?

2015-05-26 Thread Dave Cooper
Hi, What is the intended purpose of the :static-files component-type in ASDF? I see a couple examples of their use in the ASDF manual, but didn't see an explanation or real example of how to use them downstream from including them in the defsystem form in the .asd file. Presumably they can be

Re: Purpose of components of type :static-file?

2015-05-26 Thread Robert P. Goldman
Dave Cooper wrote: Hi, What is the intended purpose of the :static-files component-type in ASDF? I see a couple examples of their use in the ASDF manual, but didn't see an explanation or real example of how to use them downstream from including them in the defsystem form in the .asd file.