Kenneth Tilton writes:
On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
You mentioned on cll something about there being an aspect of asdf that you couldn't abide -- since you're now in the world of no-Allegro-IDE, what would that be?
You probably will remember: the ACL project manager loads everything in the order the source is listed. When it gets to something out of date, it recompiles. Both ASDF and mk::defsystem first look for things out of date and try to recompile (tho dependencies are honored).
I like the ACL approach because I can handle some dependencies via the order of the files. I can see the advantage of the other approach (auto handling of changes to macros), but having tried to adjust to the asdf/mk way I still find myself longing for the acl way. But I might come around on this some day.
Oh yeah, that. You can definately coerce asdf into doing it the acl way. I'm pretty sure I didn't do that for asdf-aclproj, but I thought about it and decided it was doable.