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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
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    <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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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