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      <h2>ASDF</h2><h4>Another System Definition Facility</h4>
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          <li><a href="#what_it_is">What it is</a></li>
          <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
          <li><a href="#downloads">Getting it</a></li>
          <li><a href="#bugs">Reporting Bugs</a></li>
          <li><a href="#mailing-list">Mailing List</a></li>
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        <h3>What it is</h3>
        <p>ASDF is a tool for describing how source files are organized:
          what depends on which and when.
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        <p>It is roughly what Common-Lisp hackers use to build software
          where C hackers would use say GNU Make.
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        <p>ASDF stands for <em>A</em>nother <em>S</em>ystem <em>D</em>efinition <em>F</em>acility,
          in the continuity of the Lisp DEFSYSTEM of yore.
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        <h3>Documentation</h3>
        <p>You can read our manual:</p>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="asdf.html">as one HTML file</a></li>
          <li><a href="asdf/">split into one HTML file per section</a></li>
          <li><a href="asdf.pdf">as a PDF document</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git;a=blob;f=asdf.texinfo">as texinfo source</a></li>
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        <h3>Getting it</h3>
        <p>Though they may lag behind the version here, ASDF comes bundled with most Lisps.
          To get the greatest and latest, you can:
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        <ul>
          <li>download just the source for
            <!--<a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git;a=blob_plain;tag=RELEASE;f=asdf.lisp">asdf.lisp</a>,-->
            <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.lisp">asdf.lisp</a>,
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          <li>download the
            <!--<a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git;tag=RELEASE;a=snapshot;sf=tgz">tarball</a>,-->
            <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.tar.gz">tarball</a>
            to get all bells and whistles,
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          <li>pull the latest from our git repository
            (<a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git">browse</a>)
            <pre>git clone http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.git</pre>
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        <h3>Reporting Bugs</h3>
        <p>To report bugs, you can use our 
          <a href="https://launchpad.net/asdf/">launchpad project</a>.
          If you're unsure about the bug or want to discuss how to fix it,
          you can send email to the project mailing-list below.
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        <h3>Mailing List</h3>
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          <li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel">asdf-devel</a>:
            A list for questions, patches, bug reports, and so on; It's for everything.
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        <h3>Contributing</h3>
        <p>Join our mailing list, check the code out from git,
          send questions, ideas and patches!
        </p>

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        <h3>What is happening</h3>
        <dl>
          <dt>December 2009 to April 2010</dt>
          <dd>Fran&ccedil;ois-Ren&eacute; Rideau is de facto maintainer,
            with notable contributions from Robert P. Goldman.
            Push towards an ASDF 2 release
            which many clean-ups, simplified configuration
            and updated documentation.
          </dd>
          <dt>May 2006 to November 2009</dt>
          <dd>Gary King is de facto maintainer,
            with notable contributions from
            Robert P. Goldman, Nikodemus Siivola, Christophe Rhodes, D Herring.
            Many small features and fixing bugs,
            trying to make the project more usable,
            moving to using git and common-lisp.net.
          </dd>
          <dt>May 2004 to April 2006</dt>
          <dd>Christophe Rhodes is de facto maintainer,
            with notable contributions from
            Nikodemus Siivola, Peter Van Eynde, Edi Weitz, Kevin Rosenberg.
            Make the system more robust, a few more features.
          <dt>August 2001 to May 2004</dt>
          <dd>Maintained by Daniel Barlow, with notable contributions from
            Christophe Rhodes, Kevin Rosenberg, Edi Weitz, Rahul Jain.
          <dt>August 2001</dt>
          <dd>Created by Daniel Barlow</dd>
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        <p><span class="copyright"Copyright &copy; 2001-2010 Daniel Barlow and contributors</span></p>
        <p>ASDF has an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT style</a> license</p>
        <div id="timestamp">Last updated 2010-04-08</div>
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