What kind of dependency graph are you looking to make? Just the systems, or also the individual system components?

And do you want a visible representation of this graph, or just some set of data structures?

I assume the former, since you should be able to use the system components themselves to get all the dependency links.

If it's the former, the easiest thing might be to use CL-DOT and write the necessary methods to create a graph.

You might need to get ASDF to compute the plan for LOAD-OP as a way to ensure that all the required system definitions are loaded.

With respect to test systems, I have usually found it best to have my systems, say "foo", have "foo/test" related systems, delegate the test-op for "foo" to "foo/test" using in-order-to, and then only "foo/test" needs to depend on the test library -- "foo" itself doesn't need it.

HtH,

R

On 23 Dec 2019, at 19:08, Jay wrote:

Thanks.

I will follow up with Rob later.

Anyway, thanks for help in the past. I will liaise with Rob to figure out
the best way forward.

Jay

Faré
6:52 PM (14 minutes ago)
to me

I guess, I will have to step up at some point. I have a tool that's built

with CL. I'll start small from the easier tasks and work my way up the
graph one you highlighted above.

Then, I will be able to tackle the graph thing, as you said it's no easy

fit.

Makes sense.

Are the TODO you mentioned ordered in some priority list or tagged with

easier/medium/hard.

Unhappily not. Give it a look and/or give a look at the issues on
launchpad, and/or ask Robert, for guidance. Sorry I don't have time to
sort out the issues right now.

And the repo is still the version on gitlab right? Does Rob hang over at

#lisp irc?

Yes the repo is on gitlab, but the issues are still mostly on launchpad.

Robert sometimes is on IRC as rpg (or is is rpgoldman? notthatrpg?).

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On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 6:52 PM Faré <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:

I guess, I will have to step up at some point. I have a tool that's

built with CL. I'll start small from the easier tasks and work my way up
the graph one you highlighted above.

Then, I will be able to tackle the graph thing, as you said it's no easy

fit.

Makes sense.

Are the TODO you mentioned ordered in some priority list or tagged with

easier/medium/hard.

Unhappily not. Give it a look and/or give a look at the issues on
launchpad, and/or ask Robert, for guidance. Sorry I don't have time to
sort out the issues right now.

And the repo is still the version on gitlab right? Does Rob hang over at

#lisp irc?

Yes the repo is on gitlab, but the issues are still mostly on launchpad.

Robert sometimes is on IRC as rpg (or is is rpgoldman? notthatrpg?).

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
http://fare.tunes.org
"Floating point numbers are like sandpiles; every time you move one
you lose a little sand and pick up a little dirt"
— Vic Vissotsky

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 11:33 AM Faré <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:

I could not follow up in the past as I had to relocate between cities

(central to west coast) so that caused a lot of changes in my schedule.
What is the state of the asdf contributors you mentioned last time -- the
developers taking over asdf development albeit gradually.

No one has really stepped forward. It's still Robert Goldman
maintaining things, while I have moved away from active maintenance
and am only reviewing patches and giving advice, sometimes making
small edits to documentation.

I just started working on my fairly large system again, and recently

had issues when I was trying to disentangle systems to avoid loading
multiple test systems that clobber global variables. A secondary goal is to
reduce unnecessary dependencies ( btw I use :class :package-inferred-system
in my setup).

Is there some asdf option that I can use to get the graph for a given

loaded system or some score of complexity due to linkages. I have been able
to improve this over the years and the system is a more stable but
occasionally hangs when it has to load many packages (hundreds of files)
after compiler update (using SBCL primarily)

Aha. Well, it used to be that POIU could extract a dependency graph
from an ASDF system, and act on it to build; but this has bitrotten a
bit with the latest changes in ASDF 3.3, and POIU is not currently
very stable. If you could fix it, that would be great. But beware,
it's no small undertaking: you have to really get into a lot of
internals to do it right, and make non-trivial changes to UIOP, likely
including subtle changes to ASDF itself.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•

http://fare.tunes.org

Appropriate fear keeps you alive. Excessive fear prevents the very thing
it's supposed to protect: life. — Attila Lendvai

Thanks,

Jay