Commit 9c7f1b76 authored by Robert Goldman's avatar Robert Goldman
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              for which Lisp support is available:
              <a href="https://github.com/qitab/bazelisp"><tt>bazelisp</tt></a>.
            </li>
            <li>Alastair Bridgewater's small and simple one-package-per-file
              <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/1230368"><tt>quick-build</tt></a>
              (also reimplemented as the ASDF extension
              <a href="https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf-package-system"
                 ><tt>asdf-package-system</tt></a>, now part of ASDF 3;
              similar to <tt>faslpath</tt> below).
            </li>
            <!-- <li>Alastair Bridgewater's small and simple one-package-per-file -->
            <!--   <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/1230368"><tt>quick-build</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (also reimplemented as the ASDF extension -->
            <!--   <a href="https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf-package-system" -->
            <!--      ><tt>asdf-package-system</tt></a>, now part of ASDF 3; -->
            <!--   similar to <tt>faslpath</tt> below). -->
            <!-- </li> -->
            <li>Fran&ccedil;ois-Ren&eacute; Rideau's
              <a href="https://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/"><tt>XCVB</tt></a>
              (building object and image files deterministically
@@ -194,33 +194,34 @@
            <li>Drew McDermott's
              <a href="http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/"><tt>YTools</tt></a>
              (the polar opposite of XCVB, trying to maintain coherence
              of the current Lisp image at a fine grain).
            </li>
            <li>Dmitriy Ivanov's
              <a href="http://lisp.ystok.ru/asdlite/"><tt>ASDlite</tt></a>
              (a somewhat improved incompatible variant of ASDF 1,
              much less featureful, robust or portable than ASDF 3),
            </li>
            <li>Mark Kantrowitz's
              <a href="http://www.cliki.net/mk-defsystem"><tt>mk-defsystem</tt></a>
              (free software successor of the old proprietary DEFSYSTEM's
              and predecessor of ASDF, obsolete),
            </li>
            <li>Sean Ross's
              <a href="http://sean-ross.blogspot.com/search/label/mudballs"><tt>mudballs</tt></a>
              (an attempt at making things cleaner than in ASDF 2, aborted),
            </li>
            <li>Peter von Etter's
              <a href="http://www.cliki.net/faslpath"><tt>faslpath</tt></a>
              (a much simpler system establishing a mapping
              between packages and files, abandoned but
              see <tt>asdf-package-system</tt> and <tt>quick-build</tt> above),
            </li>
            <li>Alexander Kahl's
              <a href="http://www.cliki.net/evol"><tt>evol</tt></a>
              (a reimplementation in Lisp of the GNU autotools stack,
              abandoned).
              of the current Lisp image at a fine grain). Sadly, Drew
              has recently passed away.
            </li>
            <!-- <li>Dmitriy Ivanov's -->
            <!--   <a href="http://lisp.ystok.ru/asdlite/"><tt>ASDlite</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (a somewhat improved incompatible variant of ASDF 1, -->
            <!--   much less featureful, robust or portable than ASDF 3), -->
            <!-- </li> -->
            <!-- <li>Mark Kantrowitz's -->
            <!--   <a href="http://www.cliki.net/mk-defsystem"><tt>mk-defsystem</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (free software successor of the old proprietary DEFSYSTEM's -->
            <!--   and predecessor of ASDF, obsolete), -->
            <!-- </li> -->
            <!-- <li>Sean Ross's -->
            <!--   <a href="http://sean-ross.blogspot.com/search/label/mudballs"><tt>mudballs</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (an attempt at making things cleaner than in ASDF 2, aborted), -->
            <!-- </li> -->
            <!-- <li>Peter von Etter's -->
            <!--   <a href="http://www.cliki.net/faslpath"><tt>faslpath</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (a much simpler system establishing a mapping -->
            <!--   between packages and files, abandoned but -->
            <!--   see <tt>asdf-package-system</tt> and <tt>quick-build</tt> above), -->
            <!-- </li> -->
            <!-- <li>Alexander Kahl's -->
            <!--   <a href="http://www.cliki.net/evol"><tt>evol</tt></a> -->
            <!--   (a reimplementation in Lisp of the GNU autotools stack, -->
            <!--   abandoned). -->
            <!-- </li> -->
          </ul>
          There are probably more. However, none of these systems seems
          to ever have had the traction of ASDF, probably because
@@ -251,7 +252,8 @@
          but some hacking is probably required
          to make the latest ASDF work well
          with the latest release of these implementations:
          <ul><li>
          <ul>
            <li>
              CLISP is generally well-tested with ASDF,
              though it has a few minor bugs.
              The implementation has received only
@@ -263,7 +265,16 @@
              and there is hope of a new release some day soon.
              If needs be, you can replace CLISP's provided ASDF
              with a newer one, or use an upgrade on top of that.
            </li><li>
            </li>
            <li>clasp contributors have recently been providing fixes
            for ASDF on clasp, and it has been added to the test
            suite.</li>
            <li>As of version 1.9, ABCL support is good. There were
            some regressions in 1.8.</li>
            <li>Clozure CL and CMUCL are getting harder to support,
            since they don't run well or at all, respectively, on the
            M1 hardware that I (rpg) use as my primary platform.</li>
            <li>
              CormanLisp was recently open-sourced.
              Its bundled ASDF has not yet been updated from 1.x;
              ASDF 3 should work fine with it, but
@@ -283,7 +294,7 @@
              GCL is somewhat maintained but
              its maintainer doesn't seem to care about ASDF,
              and hasn't replied for years to requests for bug fixes or
              for providing ASDF via <tt>(require "asdf")</tt>
              for providing ASDF via <tt>(require "asdf")</tt>.
            </li><li>
              Genera was never open-source and never bundled ASDF,
              but should otherwise just work with a recent ASDF 3,
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        <h3>Extensions</h3>
        <p>Known extensions to ASDF include:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="https://github.com/rpgoldman/fiveam-asdf">
              <tt>fiveam-asdf</tt></a>, use <a href="https://github.com/lispci/fiveam" >the FiveAM library</a> to
              implement an <tt>ASDF:TEST-OP</tt>.
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/xcvb/asdf-dependency-grovel">
            <tt>asdf-dependency-grovel</tt></a>,
@@ -663,9 +679,12 @@ Corman Common Lisp <admin@cormanlisp.com>
        <p>For a detailed description of changes see our <a href="changelog">Changelog</a>
        </p>
        <dl>
          <dt>August 2022</dt>
          <dd>Release of 3.3.6; sixth bugfix release for the 3.3
          release series.</dd>
          <dt>July 2021</dt>
          <dd> Release of 3.3.5: fifth bugfix release for the 3.3
          release series</dd>
          release series.</dd>

          <dt>February 2020</dt>
          <dd> Release of 3.3.4: fourth bugfix release for the 3.3