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asdf
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Sep 24, 2010
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Francois-Rene Rideau
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One more pass at dependency downloaders.
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@@ -51,19 +51,23 @@ such as documentation generation or regression testing.
{
\ASDF
}
is a central piece of software for the
{
\CL
}
community.
{
\CL
}
libraries --- especially the open source libraries ---
are overwhelmingly delivered with
{
\ASDF
}
system descriptions, and
overwhelmingly assume that
{
\ASDF
}
will be present to
supply
overwhelmingly assume that
{
\ASDF
}
will be present to
handle
their own library dependencies.
One thing
{
\ASDF
}
does
\emph
{
not
}
do is find and download required libraries for
its users.
Other
{
\CL
}
programs are trying to tackle this problem, while delegating build
and load management to
{
\ASDF
}
.
Examples include
One thing
{
\ASDF
}
does
\emph
{
not
}
do is
download such library dependencies
when they are missing.
% from the configured source code registry.
Other
{
\CL
}
programs tackle this problem,
while delegating build and load management to
{
\ASDF
}
.
These programs include
the obsolescent
\lisp
{
asdf-install
}
, the popular
\lisp
{
clbuild
}
,
the up-and-coming
\lisp
{
quicklisp
}
, and challengers like
\lisp
{
desire
}
,
\lisp
{
LibCL
}
or
\lisp
{
repo-install
}
.
% {\ASDF} also does not manage bugs, connect people, solve version incompatibility issues,
% make coffee, or find you a sexy mate, etc.
% {\ASDF} also does not manage bugs (use launchpad),
% connect people (use IRC),
% solve version incompatibility issues (use LibCL),
% make coffee (use a coffee machine),
% or find you a sexy mate (use OkCupid), etc.
\subsection
{
Analogy with
{
\large
\make
}}
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