July 2021 - asdf-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

Rejiggering the branches
by Robert Goldman 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

As we move forward, and try to add some new facilities to ASDF, this seems like a good time to revise the branching structure that we use. In particular, I would like to add a `stable` branch that will permit continuation of the 3.3 release series, the need for which is illustrated by Mark E's recent merge request. If we are going to make that change, it seems like a good time to rename the `master` branch to either `main` or `dev`. Any preferences? I'd like to have a quick discussion about this over the week, with an eye to getting a solution in place by Friday. Thanks for your thoughts, R

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Implementor emails
by Robert Goldman 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

My email to the Corman Lisp address bounced, so I am dropping Corman Lisp from the mailing list, unless someone can point me at a working contact email. Also -- my emails to the various implementation development mailing lists are all on hold waiting for moderator approval (CCL, ABCL, clasp, ECL, CMUCL). Moderators -- if you are on this list, please add me to the accept list for your mailing list; I promise I won't abuse it, but I cannot spare the time to join all the implementations' mailing lists. Thanks, R

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Build Debian release file?
by Robert Goldman 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Is anyone out there willing and able to build the Debian library for 3.3.5? It's not something I am able to do myself. Eric T -- is there any chance we could put the Debian build process into the CI? That would be a big part of a solution, but would not be a *complete* solution, which requires pushing the new library to some magical Debian upload directory and signing it. I could never get this to work satisfactorily. Best, R

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ASDF 3.3.5 is released!
by Robert Goldman 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Today we release ASDF 3.3.5, the fifth bugfix release for the 3.3 release series. We urge implementations that are currently bundling previous versions of ASDF -- and especially those bundling 3.3.0 or 3.3.1 -- to upgrade to 3.3.5 at their earliest convenience. In addition to fixes that are generally applicable, there are fixes for ECL, LispWorks, and SBCL. As maintainer, my primary role has been coordination and some limited quality control. The real work for this release has been done by many contributors and bug-reporters, to whom the Common Lisp community owes a tremendous vote of thanks. Their names are listed on the Changelog, appended below. We *hope* that the next release will be 3.4, introducing new functionality but which, as the numbering suggests, will be backward compatible. Best, Robert cl-asdf (2:3.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low * Fix bug in handling combination of :serial and :if-feature dependencies. * Add support for package local nicknames to UIOP:DEFINE-PACKAGE and ASDF's package-inferred systems. Extend support for package local nicknames to more lisp implementations. Initial work by François-René Rideau, with assists from Phoebe Goldman, Michał Herda, and Eric Timmons. * A number of fixes for Lispworks compatibility (thanks to Martin Simmons). * Fixes for SBCL and ECL from Eric Timmons and @pouar. * Add support for source files with different file extensions to package-inferred-systems. Thanks to Jingtao Xu for identifying the bug and providing a fix. * Fixes for UIOP:WITH-TEMPORARY-FILE * Miscellaneous bug fixes from Luís Oliveira, Gary Palter, François-René Rideau, and Eric Schulte. * Fix for argument handling in LAUNCH-PROGRAM. * Fixes for feature handling from Eric Timmons. * Replaced some of the internals of `parse-defsystem` with generic functions to enable modular extension. Thanks to Eric Timmons. * Faré provided more graceful upgrade capabilities, fixing bugs with upgrading support for local package nicknames, and with upgrading ABCL. -- Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman(a)sift.net> Fri, 2 Jul 2021 13:07:00 -0500

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