Re: [elephant-devel] Some thoughts/Questions from testing

2008-05-11 Thread Ian Eslick
H... I think having to name all the systems differently in each branch is a poor methodology and likely to lead to confusion over time. Instead, I wrote a simple shell script to change .asd symbolic links in my system directory. We might bundle a shell script and batch file that one

Re: [elephant-devel] Some thoughts/Questions from testing

2008-05-11 Thread Glenn Tarcea
Thanks Robert. I'll look into it. I was thinking of something much simpler than you outlined. Rather than trying to support reading objects across versions, I was just looking to support two different versions of the elephant packages, and to tease out the load-op dependencies that refer

Re: [elephant-devel] Clbuild

2008-05-11 Thread Bryan Emrys
I'm not a master of anything, but pragmas seem to be the approach used in hunchentoot (see below). (asdf:defsystem :hunchentoot :serial t :version #.*hunchentoot-version* :depends-on (:chunga :cl-base64 :cl-fad :cl-ppcre #-(or :li

Re: [elephant-devel] Clbuild

2008-05-11 Thread Robert L. Read
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 14:22 -0700, Bryan Emrys wrote: > At one point the clbuild maintainers looked at elephant but had some problems > that prevented inclusion. > > Specifically: > > # - needs sb-posix, but doesn't declare that dependency, meaning that > #it doesn't build even with a confi

Re: [elephant-devel] Some thoughts/Questions from testing

2008-05-11 Thread Robert L. Read
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 19:50 -0400, Glenn Tarcea wrote: > What do you all think about allowing two different versions of > Elephant to be installed at the same time? I tried to have both my > original version of Elephant installed and also to install elephant- > unstable. Currently there are a

[elephant-devel] Some thoughts/Questions from testing

2008-05-11 Thread Glenn Tarcea
What do you all think about allowing two different versions of Elephant to be installed at the same time? I tried to have both my original version of Elephant installed and also to install elephant- unstable. Currently there are a lot of dependencies on the system name sprinkled throughout

[elephant-devel] Clbuild

2008-05-11 Thread Bryan Emrys
At one point the clbuild maintainers looked at elephant but had some problems that prevented inclusion. Specifically: # - needs sb-posix, but doesn't declare that dependency, meaning that #it doesn't build even with a config file # - ele-clsql loads clsql from the .asd file, not using :dep