[Once again I forgot to Reply All. Ala, you've seen part of this before.]
I'm a filer. With ASDF and even more so these days with Quicklisp, it's just easier to load the stuff I need and it doesn't take that long and it saves me having to spend any mental energy keeping track of different images.
However, Fare's mention of buildapp reminded me that I use it for some of my deployed websites, mostly just so I have one thing that is built and I know won't change, if I accidentally decide to upgrade a library or tweak some source code for some other reason. (Obviously, I could also just keep my source for the running app in some distinct place--now that I'm a bit more adept at git, I might start doing that.)
-Peter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Ala'a Mohammad amalawi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm continually learning Common-lisp and trying to find the best style that suites me better. I've tried 'an imager' style (cooking a an image with all required libraries loaded when required), and 'a filer' style (loading files or systems each time I fire-up a CL implementation). I'm interested to hear what others use CL. How do they manage day to day work? how do their preferred style mesh into their production pipeline (coding, debugging, deployment and maintenance)? and what makes them prefer one way over another or the mix if applicable?
Regards,
Ala'a Mohammad.
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