On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
Kenny Tilton writes:
So whoop-dee-doo, Cello heads for OS X!
Cool. What dev environment are you using over here?
Undecided. Probably Lispworks, but Frank is doing OpneMCL, so I /might/ look at that to make collaboration easier. otoh, it would be sweet filling in two checkboxes on the OS x Implementation grid. Right now I am just running Fink Commander to see how far I can get with the libs. Looked like a quick win until I got some really embarrassing (for open source or fink) errors on ImageMagick. But the gaffes look manageable.
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 When it gets to something out of date, it recompiles. Both ASDF and mk::defsystem first look for things out of date and try to recompile (tho dependencies are honored).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.
kt