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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>
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<h3>ASDF 2</h3>
<p>We recently released ASDF 2 (on May 31st 2010).
It will hopefully be bundled will all official releases
of Common Lisp implementations made after that date.
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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>
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<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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<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
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<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 git://common-lisp.net/projects/asdf/asdf.git</pre>
(Note that our "master" branch is for current development;
get our "release" branch for the latest stable release.)
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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!
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<h3>What is happening</h3>
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<dd>François-René Rideau is de facto maintainer,
Francois-Rene Rideau
committed
with notable contributions from Robert P. Goldman,
Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll and James Anderson.
ASDF 2 released
with many clean-ups, better configurability
and updated documentation.
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<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, Daniel Herring.
Many small features and bug fixes,
making the project more maintanable,
moving to using git and common-lisp.net.
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<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.
The system made more robust, a few more features.
<dt>August 2001 to May 2004</dt>
<dd>Developed 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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