maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

2015-09-17 Thread Robert Dodier
packages, and Quicklisp uses ASDF to compile and load stuff. Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this problem. Robert Dodier

Re: maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

2015-09-21 Thread Robert Dodier
e's the example foo.asd I've been working with. (defsystem foo :name "foo" :version "2015.09.21" :maintainer "Robert Dodier" :author "Robert Dodier" :licence "GPL" :description "Foo, Bar, and Baz" :long-description "Appl

Re: maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

2015-09-23 Thread Robert Dodier
ng like $HOME/.cache/common-lisp/. I'm constructing the /... part of it. I wonder if it's possible to tell ASDF it doesn't need to put in the part. Thanks for your help, and if you have any comments, I would be interested to hear about it. best Robert Dodier maxima_asdf.lisp Description: Binary data

Re: maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

2015-09-24 Thread Robert Dodier
ds-on list? Thanks for your help, Robert Dodier

Re: Problems with DEFSYSTEM-DEPENDS-ON

2018-04-07 Thread Robert Dodier
no conscious intent to assert that one condition or another must prevail. Any improvements by more knowledgeable people would be welcomed by me. All the best, Robert Dodier

Finding out from where the .asd was loaded and/or referencing a non-executable data file

2018-03-16 Thread Robert Dodier
puzzle out anything. The more general idea is that the system contains a non-Lisp data file. Is there a general approach to work with that? Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem. Robert Dodier

Re: Finding out from where the .asd was loaded and/or referencing a non-executable data file

2018-03-16 Thread Robert Dodier
that this systems has flaws, but at this point I am taking it as a given; I'm trying to make progress on a lot of fronts, and cleaning up this monstrosity is a lower priority item. best, Robert Dodier

Re: Finding out from where the .asd was loaded and/or referencing a non-executable data file

2018-03-16 Thread Robert Dodier
led" file in it, you > don't have to use *LOAD-TRUENAME*. Hmm, examining the cache after running ASDF, I don't see the static files there. But I think using the component slot to get the file location is promising, I will give that a try. best, Robert Dodier

Re: Finding out from where the .asd was loaded and/or referencing a non-executable data file

2018-03-16 Thread Robert Dodier
place where the info file is found, just as it is when the index.lisp is loaded via LOAD). I suppose I could create a class that has the effect of copying the info files without any other operation on them? best, Robert Dodier

Re: follow-up about handling .info file and index

2018-03-21 Thread Robert Dodier
like unfriendly behavior; it seems better that either it should complain or do nothing. Thanks for your help, I think I'm in good shape on this front now. best, Robert Dodier PS. ;; info-index.lisp -- ASDF component type for Maxima documentation index ;; copyright 2018 by Robert Dodier ;; I release

Re: follow-up about handling .info file and index

2018-03-20 Thread Robert Dodier
should in the future > replace all current occurrences of static slots :initform with this style I dunno -- I think I'm going to play it safe and use the old pattern, if it's necessary at all ... I'm a pretty casual ASDF user, I don't know if I can invest the time to figure the old vs new stuff. All the best, Robert Dodier

using most recent .asd file, if multiple are present

2018-03-20 Thread Robert Dodier
ASDF currently returns the first system found, ...". Is there any way to intervene to return a specific system, specifically the most recent one? Thank you once again for your help, Robert Dodier

follow-up about handling .info file and index

2018-03-20 Thread Robert Dodier
would have expected (on little reason) that the parent class CL-SOURCE-FILE would supply that. (2) In INPUT-FILES, why doesn't (info-index-type c) yield "lisp"? Doesn't INFO-INDEX have an accessor INFO-INDEX-TYPE? I may well be very confused about simple things. Thank you for your patience, I

Lowercase naming requirement for systems?

2019-02-16 Thread Robert Dodier
't have my maxima-file hackery. If it turns out we need to go into this in more detail, I will devise a more minimal example. But first maybe someone can say what the name requirement is. best, Robert Dodier PS. (defsystem "SolveSolvable2" :defsystem-depends-on ("maxima-file&q

Re: Lowercase naming requirement for systems?

2019-02-17 Thread Robert Dodier
nks again, and best wishes. Robert Dodier

Re: Lowercase naming requirement for systems?

2019-02-19 Thread Robert Dodier
ing that it is required to be lowercase. I found the text about pathname specifiers as well. I didn't see a requirement there because neither the system name nor component names were specified by the grammar or the commentary on the grammar to be pathname specifiers. Thanks again for your help, Rob

How to tell if we're being loaded by ASDF?

2020-03-08 Thread Robert Dodier
of ASDF. But if it is being loaded by ASDF, then I'd like to know that. Thanks a lot for any info, Robert Dodier

Re: Rejiggering the branches

2021-07-12 Thread Robert Dodier
appropriate. Any future releases would be on a new branch, presumably version-3_4 or version-4 or whatever; the version-3_3 branch would not be reused for that purpose. The benefit of such a scheme, I believe, is just to make it clearer what's what. FWIW Robert Dodier

Re: Next steps

2021-11-17 Thread Robert Dodier
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:45 AM Robert Goldman wrote: > I favor something like this because it would be nice to have prerelease > versions of ASDF that perform version checks properly. > > What I mean is, if we are going to add a feature in version 3.4, right now > that would be in a

Re: How to use the current directory?

2023-09-22 Thread Robert Dodier
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 3:05 PM Blake McBride wrote: > How can I force asdf to load and use the package in the local directory > rather than the cached standard distribution? My understanding is that the following is poor form (I seem to recall ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY* is deprecated), however,

progress on asdf-dependency-grovel

2022-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
I've managed to get asdf-dependency-grovel to load. There is a comment in adg/tests/grovel-test.lisp that ASDF 3.1 is required. Okay, I have ASDF 3.1.5 laying around so I loaded that. Now SBCL can load adg. The test script adg/tests/run-tests.sh runs (with modifications) but all of the tests fail

Re: Lisp file and/or ASDF dependency analysis; trying to load asdf-dependency-grovel

2022-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
Robert, thanks for your reply. I have made some progress. >> Just performed compiling #> "test-serial-system" "package"> but failed to mark it done > It would help to get a backtrace here. I can't tell from this if the error is > happening in ASDF or in ASDF-DEPENDENCY-GROVEL (which probably

Re: progress on asdf-dependency-grovel

2022-12-16 Thread Robert Dodier
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:25 PM Faré wrote: > sbcl --eval "'(#.(require :asdf) #.(in-package :asdf) #.(upgrade-asdf) > #.(load-system :asdf-dependency-grovel))" --quit > No error. I tried it again with ASDF 3.3 + SBCL 2.1.1, and I can load adg successfully, with a couple of (push "path/to/adg/"

Re: progress on asdf-dependency-grovel

2022-12-16 Thread Robert Dodier
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:07 AM Faré wrote: > Or later. I recommend testing with the latest ASDF. I tried a later version (3.2 or 3.3, I forget which) and adg fails to load. I think I'll stick w/ the last known working version until I sort out getting it to run ... > This output doesn't help

Lisp file and/or ASDF dependency analysis; trying to load asdf-dependency-grovel

2022-12-14 Thread Robert Dodier
irected graph in hand. I don't suppose someone has already automated looking for cycles in .asd files? Thanks in advance for any advice, I appreciate your help. best, Robert Dodier PS. Here's my patch for asdf-dependency-grovel. $ diff -u tests/run-tests.sh-original tests/run-tests.sh --- tests/r

asdf-dependency-grovel tests mostly passing now

2022-12-20 Thread Robert Dodier
at process didn't work, so it's loaded by hand. ADG constructs a new .asd file from the inferred dependencies (and writes it into the ASDF output cache -- maybe that could be mentioned in a readme or something) and I present it here as a kind of trophy. All the best, Robert Dodier PS. grov