On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
Alternatively, I would contemplate the possibility of including a configuration step in ECL that downloads the latest ASDF. That would be easy, just looking for the existence of internet connection + wget/curl,
but
we would need a stable and permanent address for ASDF files to be downloaded. I mean individual files, not really a tarball.
I wrote a script to do just that in sbcl's contrib/asdf. They didn't get my latest version, but here's the Makefile target, that you can tailor to your needs:
up: if [ -d asdf-upstream ] ; then \ cd asdf-upstream ; git checkout release ; git reset --hard release ; git pull -a ; else \ git clone --branch release \ git://common-lisp.net/projects/asdf/asdf.git asdf-upstream ; fi
Do you realize that "git" is not a suitable distribution method for many users? It would be more interesting to have a permanent web address for the latest stable release, from which to download it -- a process that can then be performed in many other ways.
Juanjo