Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
Cc'ng asdf-devel.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Zach Beane xach@xach.com wrote:
Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
How do I get asdf-driver?
It's currently part of the asdf git tree. Should I make it separate? I think you can already include asdf-driver.asd without including asdf.
What is the relationship between asdf-driver and asdf? What is a driver?
asdf uses asdf-driver. asdf-driver is currently distributed as part of the asdf source tree, but if that is an issue, there is no barrier to splitting it apart.
For bootstrap purposes, the source code of asdf-driver is transcluded into asdf.lisp as a prelude to asdf, so asdf can rely on it.
asdf-driver is a general purpose portability and runtime management library. It provides various abstraction layers for packages, pathnames, command-line arguments, compilation, condition-muffling, run-program, image dump and restore with hooks, basic I/O, etc.
For nearly all other libraries, there is a repo or .tgz file I can download to package it up for Quicklisp. It would be nice if that was the case for asdf-driver, too.
Zach