Hi Robert,
[also cc'ing this to asdf-devel in case anyone else has feedback]
Ok, shifting gears a little bit here first...
I'm trying a few test runs of the ASDF test suite on Windows. Platforms on Windows which I have available to test right now are: Allegro CL (several variations), and CCL.
To prepare to run the tests on Windows, I installed cygwin and cygwin's make. Then to run the tests, I do (for lack of having this more automated so far):
1. set ASDF_TEST_LISPS appropriately.
2. Edit run-tests.sh to point to appropriate Lisp executables.
3 Invoke "make test-all-no-upgrade" from the cygwin command shell.
Let's try CCL first. Here are the outputs:
Summary: 42 out of 47 pass (5 failures).
I can try to dive into these further, but I thought I would post the results here first in case anything is obvious to anyone.
Incidentally, I have been running ASDF in production with Allegro CL for some time now (including asdf:monolithic-fasl-op) and it has been working well. There are some startup glitches for running ASDF tests on Windows/Allegro right now. After the CCL issue is resolved I will return to trying to get the tests to run for Allegro on Windows.