Re: [asdf-devel] deprecating run-shell-command

2013-01-08 Thread Faré
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Daniel Herring dherr...@tentpost.com wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Faré wrote: I will add a concatenate-all-source-op that recursively descends into all system dependencies, concatenates all sources, and creates the output file asdf.lisp, also including

[asdf-devel] deprecating run-shell-command

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Goldman
I know why we have done this, but I deeply regret it. ASDF claims to be able to do things like build C code to be linked into lisp systems. It cannot do this without something like ASDF:RUN-SHELL-COMMAND. I understand that XCVB-DRIVER:RUN-PROGRAM is proposed as an alternative, but this adds a

Re: [asdf-devel] deprecating run-shell-command

2013-01-06 Thread Faré
Dear Robert, regarding ASDF and libraries, I think I have a solution that will satisfy everyone. I will adopt the plan once proposed by James Anderson, back when ASDF was one third the size that it is now: split ASDF into many parts, and programmatically reconstitute it into a single source file