On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:07 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -3:49 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/93a4b06a66b0b335
1- The new configuration and file searching mechanism is causing some grief.
As a user, I'll just note that I browsed the manual, didn't understand much, and for now I'm just using:
(asdf:enable-asdf-binary-locations-compatibility :centralize-lisp-binaries t :default-toplevel-directory (merge-pathnames (format nil ".cache/common-lisp/~A/" (hostname)) (user-homedir-pathname) nil) :include-per-user-information nil ;; :map-all-source-files ??? :source-to-target-mappings nil)
and asdf:*central-registry* until I have time to learn how to do it in the new way.
So I would say that indeed, the documentation could be improved.
This is pretty much the same for me. I had a workaround for configuration in ASDF 1:
1. ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS worked for me (decentralized binaries) and
2. I developed a limited clone of `find` in portable common lisp called ASD-FINDER that you point at a directory and it returns a list of all the subdirectories that contain .asd files (and it supports prune). Then, for each of my projects, I had a configuration function (e.g., PROJECT-FOO), which would invoke the ASD-finder to set up asdf:*central-registry* appropriately for that project. I would start up lisp, invoke the project function for the project I was working on at the moment, and then be ready to go. I haven't yet determined what's the appropriate way to replace this for ASDF2, so still use it.
2- Lack *-user mailing list and need of subscription for questions. Is there a sufficiently large comunity here and do we want to open the list?
With all due respect, opening a list is pretty much never a good idea. It's just asking for spam. Per my response to the above complainer, I think it would be great if there was a help web site that
Allowed OpenID login --- no need for new accounts
Served up questions to the interested through email digest and RSS.
As a potential question-answerer, I don't have time to log in to such a web site. I would need to have the questions pushed at me.
Is there any such existing software that we could adopt?
I'm using gmane, and the overhead to subscribe is really minimal: just reply to a message gmane sends back the first time you post...
So should we just set up an asdf-help mailing list?