On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Robert Goldman wrote:
Apparently, some time ago David Lichteblau proposed an asdf patch (which I am attaching) that would make it possible for ASDF to follow Windows shortcuts as if they were symbolic links.
I have merged this patch in with the latest ASDF. I've tested it against a couple lisp implementations on both linux and MSWinXP. Neither platform had any problems, but my Windows shortcuts started working properly.
Get the changes from my copy of the ASDF git repository at http://git.libcl.com/local/?p=asdf.git;a=summary (That repository also contains an ECL bugfix.)
I'd appreciate it if a few others reported that it works and/or doesn't break anything; but I think these changes are ready for merging into the master ASDF tree.
To test on Windows, create shortcut files and put them in *central-registry* the way you use symlinks on other filesystems. Note that IIRC Clisp natively dereferences shortcut files; so don't do all your Windows testing with it.
Later, Daniel