I was just setting up a new machine to do lisp work on, and got part of the way through the install, then realized "oh, drat, now I need to get asdf-binary-locations, too." Would it be possible to simply distribute a-b-l with ASDF from now on? It's a pretty tiny add on, and it has been rock solid for a long time now. The cost seems very low (small number of bytes, and it would be disabled unless launched by the user), and I'd argue that skipping a step in working lisp environment configuration would be a good thing.
best, r
I think that that would be a good thing and was going to bring up the idea myself!
Any dissent?
On May 18, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:
I was just setting up a new machine to do lisp work on, and got part of the way through the install, then realized "oh, drat, now I need to get asdf-binary-locations, too." Would it be possible to simply distribute a-b-l with ASDF from now on? It's a pretty tiny add on, and it has been rock solid for a long time now. The cost seems very low (small number of bytes, and it would be disabled unless launched by the user), and I'd argue that skipping a step in working lisp environment configuration would be a good thing.
best, r
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2009/5/18 Gary King gwking@metabang.com:
I think that that would be a good thing and was going to bring up the idea myself!
Any dissent?
I haven't ever used it, so I can't really comment on it. I'll take a look before the week is out.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus
Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
2009/5/18 Gary King gwking@metabang.com:
I think that that would be a good thing and was going to bring up the idea myself!
Any dissent?
I haven't ever used it, so I can't really comment on it. I'll take a look before the week is out.
That'd be great. Note that it doesn't do anything to change the vanilla behavior. You will still have to do an asdf-load of asdf-binary-locations to make it happen (we might streamline this, but not to the point of making it default behavior), but it will save ASDF users who DO want it from having to do another file download, fuss with symbolic links, etc.
We'd just be offering more function "out of the box," rather than forcing it on anyone.
best, r
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