Thanks for your comments, Robert. I've revised the INFO-INDEX class
and made it a lot simpler (and still working the same). For what it's
worth, I've pasted it below.
I noticed that UIOP:COPY-FILE doesn't seem to behave well if told to
copy a file to itself -- it clobbers the file. That seems
> I think the Right Thing is to realize that what ASDF does is not so much
> transform files, as to maintain the consistency of the running lisp image.
> Now, in no case does the running lisp image need either the JSON generation
> system or the JSON to lisp translation system. All the running