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james anderson wrote:
On 2009-05-18, at 14:55 , Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
2009/5/18 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>:
Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
I've read several times that it's a head ache to configure optional dependencies with ASDF.
How true is that? Could we perhaps provide another clause :OPTIONALLY-DEPEND-ON in DEFSYSTEM which would load a system only if available? Doesn't :WEAKLY-DEPENDS-ON do what you want?
there is at least one more kind of dependency between two components: "contingency".
... Did this discussion ever go anywhere? James, would it be possible for you to resend this email with the tables given as a text attachment, rather than as inline text? I don't know about the rest of the list, but my client (Thunderbird) turned your tables into complete and utter gibberish. Best, r