I am pleased to announce the release of ASDF 2.21. Since previous release 2.20, the changes are as follow:
* New features: * Most importantly, encodings. ASDF now lets you specify an :encoding for a system, module or component, that is used when loading or compiling Lisp files. See the documentation. By default, the only useful value is :utf-8, and we recommend you use UTF-8 everywhere. We intend to make UTF-8 the default in the future (current default is the legacy behavior of using whichever implicit default your underlying implementation is currently configured to use). An extension asdf-encodings is available that supports more encodings, including autodetection of encoding from either emacs-style declaration -*- Mode: Lisp ; coding: utf-8 -*- or content. * require-system works like load-system, but won't try to load or update systems that have already been loaded, as listed by loaded-systems. More generally, you can specify a list of systems as :force-not argument to load-system and the specified systems won't be loaded or updated. * You can specify :force-not and a list of systems when loading a system, * You can now specify :hostname in your asdf-output-translations, so you can easily share a home directory via the network yet split its fasl cache between several subtly different machines. * Bug Fixes: * lp#982285. since 2.014.4, the default source-registry was skipping anything from /usr or XDG_DATA_DIRS, because of a missing test in getenv-absolute-pathnames. Fixed in .15. * In 2.019.9 aka 2.20, ECL support was broken by using a function in the wrong package (defined in cl-user). Fixed in .1. * logical-pathname support was somewhat broken since 2.017.6, due to the way most implementations fail to read physical namestrings when *default-pathname-defaults* is a logical-pathname. Fixed, together with other logical-pathname issues, and a test case was added to the test suite to ensure no further regression. Works great modulo quirks around implementation bugs on CLISP and Allegro. * Make upgrading ASDF more robust on CMUCL, LispWorks, SBCL. * Minor tweaks: * Use :unspecific in pathname components on more implementations. * export and/or document more utilities. * add a few missing compatfmt for Genera.
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