On 5/8/10 1:05 AM, Faré wrote:
I don't know the status of ASDF-INSTALL.
It looks like ASDF-INSTALL is being maintained outside ASDF.
We probably should remove the asdf-install and cclan files from our repository.
Since ASDF-INSTALL has its own repository, they should probably #+asdf2 ify any compatibility changes. Sorry about that.
I'm not so sure that ASDF-INSTALL is actively maintained, as the last ChangeLog darcs entry is from 2008. When I went looking to incorporate ASDF-INSTALL into ABCL several months ago, I found a wide divergence of its implementation among the contemporary active Lisp implementations, from which I cherry-picked to get the [version in ABCL][1]
[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12487
Wouldn't it make sense for ASDF to subsume the installation code part of ASDF-INSTALL like it subsumed ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS? This is certainly a post ASDF2 release question, so it is probably a good idea to remove the files from the ASDF tree as you suggest.
It certainly is a vote of confidence in the fidelity of ASDF2's backwards compatibility that ASDF-INSTALL only requires a [minor adjustment][2] to work!
[2]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12657