On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> This isn't really a standard bootstrapping issue, and I think it's
> better to break the vicious cycle by simply booting the scripting engine
> out into a separate repository.
>
Indeed, one big issue is that the asdf under test shouldn't be
On 2/29/16 Feb 29 -1:37 PM, Attila Lendvai wrote:
>> 3- It fails badly when asdf itself is so broken that it can't load
>> asdf-tools. I only very recently (January 2016) modified the lisp
>> scripting infrastructure to build an executable ./build/asdf-tools the
>> first time they are called, hopef
> 3- It fails badly when asdf itself is so broken that it can't load
> asdf-tools. I only very recently (January 2016) modified the lisp
> scripting infrastructure to build an executable ./build/asdf-tools the
> first time they are called, hopefully with a stable working asdf.
isn't this a standar
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> Originally, I was very concerned to minimize the overhead of
> dependencies for building and testing ASDF, and I still think this is
> important.
>
Agreed.
Well, building ASDF strictly speaking only ever necessitate Make, a
shell and cat (
