Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler > <t...@freebits.de>wrote: > >> Do people want something like that? Dear, yes! For example, Zach Beane's >> buildapp found great resonance: >> >> http://www.xach.com/lisp/buildapp/ >> >> Is your stuff the essentials to have something like that be part of >> ASDF? If so, could you shortly write up a kind of roadmap? >> > > 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. -T. _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
