Why use ASDF? It's a 2-liner in CL: (dolist (f (directory ".../data/")) (load f))
-- Scott On Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 8:54 AM Robert Goldman <[email protected]> wrote: > Questions of clarification: > > 1. Are you asking how to tell ASDF to slurp all the data files *without > listing them explicitly*? > 2. What do you mean by "at once"? Do you mean pull them all in a > single operation (e.g., by appending them all to a single file and then > loading that file)? Or do you just mean "I would like to be able to write a > single s-expression to load all these files"? > > TBQH, I would be tempted to just do: > > ls data/*.lisp | perl -ne 'chomp; print("(:file \"$_\")\n");' > > In order to get a set of lines I could include in my system definition (if > you hate perl, you could probably use sed and awk; I've never mastered > these). I.e., what's so bad about having to list the files explicitly? One > could even use a makefile to automate this process. Or, if you wanted to > do this purely in CL, I suppose you could write a "meta-ASDF" operation > that would generate the ASDF defsystem. That seems like way too much > work, though. > > On 30 Nov 2025, at 5:20, Marco Antoniotti wrote: > > Hello parenthetically unchallenged friends! > > Suppose I have a library that is structured as > > src/ > code.lisp > pkg.lisp > stuff.lisp > data/ > data-file-1.lisp > data-file-2.lisp > data-file-3.lisp > ... > data-file-3-point-14-godzillion.lisp > > Actually, the data folder could be anywhere. > How do I tell ASDF (or similar) to just slurp in all the data files at > once? I know it's doable, but maybe someone knows of a better way. > > Thanks > > Marco > > > -- > Marco Antoniotti, Professor, Director tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 > DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it > Viale Sarca 336 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Viale+Sarca+336+%0D%0AI-20126+Milan+(MI)+ITALY?entry=gmail&source=g> > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Viale+Sarca+336+%0D%0AI-20126+Milan+(MI)+ITALY?entry=gmail&source=g> > > REGAINS: https://regains.disco.unimib.it/ > >
