Re: [asdf-devel] Detecting non-defsystem dependencies

Zach Beane wrote:

Some system files look like this:

;;;; myproject.asd

(asdf:load-system "some-prerequisite")

(defsystem "myproject" ...)

Can you recommend a good way to detect that system "myproject" depends on system "some-prerequisite"? Are there any hooks or other features of ASDF that might make it straightforward?

Zach

I suppose one could do something scary like loading the system definition through a process that would cause invocation of ASDF operations to be trapped and logged instead of executed. This would be a sort of sandbox, and results of loading the .asd file into the sandbox could be used to infer the presence of such loading events.

This still seems pretty nasty compared to fixing the system definition files.

Best, r