On 5/4/17 May 4 -2:05 PM, Faré wrote:
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
Still, what has been implemented (and what I am proposing), seems to violate Faré's description of ASDF as a build system that should only deal with Common Lisp artifacts.I don't remember writing that ASDF *should* only deal with CL artifacts. Historically, that's what it always did; but "CL artifacts" has included "C code linked into the CL runtime" for a *long* time. And this year, this includes static linking as well as dynamic linking. Moreover, ASDF has the potential of doing more than that. Indeed, cl-unicode drives processing of data files using ASDF. QRes also used to massage its configuration files or to generate CL code from ASDF.
ASDF *should* do whatever you need to build your CL application. Now to actually make that happens can be easy or hard, depending on what that is.
Seconded. We routinely use ASDF to load systems in other programming languages that are built with MAKE, but that our CL code interacts with....