On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Andrew Sengul ml@imagegardenphoto.com wrote:
What is the granularity of your seeds?
I'm not sure what you mean, by granularity are you referring to the size of the minimum viable Seed system? It could be just a folder containing an .asd file and a .seed file. You'd probably want a .lisp source file in there to do much of anything interesting. Less orthodox arrangements could work too.
I'm a bit confused. Is it a Lisp DSL, a graphical programming system, the two next to each other, or the two at the same time, etc.? When you program graphically, how do you specify the division in files and/or systems?
When I first joined this list in July 2016 I asked a question about the possibility of using ASDF to build systems with source code that didn't come in files but from lists stored in variables in the running Lisp instance. Implementing a feature like that would make Seed more flexible.
I remember that question. ASDF as it is isn't geared for small expressions. It's "up-to-date" check uses a simple timestamp, in practice with a precision of one second only. Not a great way foundation for a dataflow system. Actually, I'd like to see a successor of ASDF use a dataflow system as a better foundation. Not going to happen by me, though. And backward compatibility is a bitch (see bugs recently announced on this list, despite months of testing before release). See my blog post about my ideal build system: http://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2016/04/26/chapter-9-build-systems/
The main thing to understand is that it's a dataflow language. Each successive form like (set-time) and (codec) is passed the input data, does something to it and passes it to the next form in the list. So the till macro transforms something like "(set-time) (do-something) (codec)" to "(codec (do-something (set-time original-data)))." With this language, I can implement things like clipboards and undo history in unique ways for different systems.
Reminds me of my uiop:nest macro. https://fare.livejournal.com/189741.html More seriously, congrats, it really looks neat at first glance.
BTW, are you around NYC or are you passing by in 2018? You could give a talk at Lisp NYC.
I'm located on the West Coast but I could be over there sometime; that would be great. Thanks for your feedback,
Tell me if/when you go East.
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