Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

<juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com> writes:
> What is needed for any kind of standalone system building that relies on
> ASDF system definitions and is capable of incorporating all dependencies?
>
> - A way to gather the list of files that form part of that system
> (gather-components in asdf-ext.lisp)
> - A way to compile the components (provided by asdf.lisp and extended by
> asdf-{ecl,sbcl,...}.lisp if needed)
> - A way to pack all the compiled files into a single output file
> (implementation-dependent and thus in asdf-{ecl,sbcl...}).
>
> The first part is very critical and it needs the expertise of ALL of ASDF
> maintainers to get it right. As a bonus the result will be applicable to ALL
> functions that kind of grovel through ASDF system definitions.

Another real life usage case: Slime's asdf contrib does that, too, to
provide functionality such as running the Emacs command rgrep, or
query-replace over all files defined in a system.