On 1/4/10 5:30 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: […]
If you are after newbies, then installing packages must be easy. I'm really happy with the work-around shown on this mailing list, where one uses SBCL to install packages for ABCL. In the long run, ABCL obviously needs some kind of installation management.
Actually looking through ASDF-INSTALL today didn't leave the impression that there would be too much to do to get it to work with ABCL's ASDF. I had feared that being stuck on an ancient ASDF until we [implement the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION][1] but now I think it is more a matter of hooking up the socket interfaces correctly.
I've filed a [ticket for this targeting the abcl-0.19 release][2].
[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/66 [2]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/78