The [first release candidate of the JAR file support patches][1] are now available.
[1]: http://slack.net/~evenson/abcl/jar-file/
Notable changes in this version:
o The ASDF:LOAD-JUST-FASLS-OP has been replaced by the use of the normal ASDF:LOAD-OP verb for loading from JAR files. Now if the output file location of ASDF's compilation phase would be a JAR file, the compilation is simply skipped.
o Loading from network JARs now works
o Use of JAR pathnames in OPEN now signals an error. The dependency of ABCL's streams on java.io.File looks too strong to easily graft my changes in at this point, so I'd rather get the current code in rather than waiting even longer by adding new features.
I'm pretty happy with this version having cleaned up numerous bugs so I intend to commit it to the trunk unless there are vocal objections in the next few days.