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<a id="what_it_is"></a>
<h3>What it is</h3>
<p>ASDF 3 contains two parts: <tt>asdf/defsystem</tt> and <tt>asdf/driver</tt>.
<p>ASDF 3 contains two parts: <tt>asdf/defsystem</tt> and <tt>uiop</tt>.
</p>
<p><tt>asdf/defsystem</tt>,
is a tool to describe how Lisp source code is organized in systems,
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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 <tt>DEFSYSTEM</tt> of yore.
</p>
<p><tt>asdf/driver</tt>,
also known as <tt>uiop</tt>,
<p><tt>uiop</tt>,
also known as <tt>asdf/driver</tt>,
the Utilities for Implementation- and OS- Portability,
is a Common Lisp portability library and runtime support system
that helps you write Common Lisp software in a portable way.
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access the environment, use the filesystem,
call other programs and parse their output,
compile Lisp code, muffle conditions, or configure Lisp software.
See its
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git;a=blob;f=uiop/README;hb=HEAD;js=1">README</a>.
</p>
<a id="what_it_is_not"></a>
<h3>What it is not</h3>
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(a somewhat improved incompatible variant of ASDF 1, less featureful than ASDF 3),
or Alastair Bridgewater's one-package-per-file
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/1230368"><tt>quick-build</tt></a>
(similar to <tt>faslpath</tt> below).
(similar to <tt>faslpath</tt> below,
also reimplemented as the ASDF extension <a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf-package-system.git"><tt>asdf-package-system</tt></a>).
Older systems that are not maintained anymore include
Mark Kantrowitz's
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/mk-defsystem"><tt>mk-defsystem</tt></a>
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<li><a href="http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/lisp/misc.php#asdf-flv"
><tt>asdf-flv</tt></a>,
to bind file-local variables around the compilation of some files.</li>
<li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf-package-system.git"
><tt>asdf-package-system</tt></a>,
to compile Lisp source files with one package per file
that also determines dependencies, in the style of
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/1230368"><tt>quick-build</tt></a> or
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/faslpath"><tt>faslpath</tt></a>
(hopefully to be merged into a future ASDF 3.0.4 or 3.1 release.</li>
</ul>
<p>Former extensions, now superseded, include:</p>
<ul>
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or (on supported implementations), a standalone executable program.
</li>
<li><tt>asdf-utils</tt> was a collection of utilities that originated with ASDF.
It is now superseded by <tt>asdf/driver</tt>, aka <tt>uiop</tt>,
It is now superseded by <tt>uiop</tt>, aka <tt>asdf/driver</tt>,
which is part of ASDF,
and exports its functionality
in its own package <tt>uiop</tt>.
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<a id="news"></a>
<h3>What is happening</h3>
<dl>
<dt>Summer 2013</dt>
<dt>Since July 2013</dt>
<dd>Fran&ccedil;ois-Ren&eacute; Rideau has resigned as maintainer
after releasing ASDF 3.0.1.
Robert P. Goldman is interim maintainer until someone more gifted,
charming, dedicated, and better-looking can be secured to fill the role.</dd>
<dt>In February 2013</dt>
Robert P. Goldman is interim maintainer until someone more gifted,
charming, dedicated, and better-looking can be secured to fill the role.
</dd>
<dt>November 2012 to June 2013</dt>
<dd>
ASDF 3 now includes both the traditional <tt>asdf/defsystem</tt>
and a formalized portability library <tt>asdf/driver</tt>.
Fran&ccedil;ois-Ren&eacute; Rideau completely rewrites ASDF
and publishes ASDF 3, beta-released as 2.27 in February 2013,
and released as 3.0.1 in May 2013.
It now includes both the traditional <tt>asdf/defsystem</tt>
and a formalized portability library <tt>uiop</tt> (née <tt>asdf/driver</tt>).
<tt>asdf/defsystem</tt> is a backward-compatible reimplementation of ASDF
with correct timestamp propagation based on a consistent dependency model,
and featuring support for bundle output, deferred warnings check, and more.
<tt>asdf/driver</tt> provides many abstractions to write portable Common Lisp programs.
</dd>
<dt>In April 2012</dt>
<dd>
ASDF 2.21 now controls the character encoding used by Lisp source files.
You can specify different encodings in your defsystem,
e.g. <kbd>:encoding :latin1</kbd>,
if you <kbd>:defsystem-depends-on (:asdf-encodings)</kbd>.
While the default will remain to load and compile file
with the <kbd>:default</kbd> external-format,
we encourage all library authors to adopt
the <i>de facto</i> standard, UTF-8,
for all their source files (.lisp and .asd).
Our intent is to bless and enforce this standard encoding
on all these files by default in a not-to-faraway future.
<tt>uiop</tt> provides many abstractions to write portable Common Lisp programs.
Last version: 3.0.1.
</dd>
<dt>Since December 2009</dt>
<dt>December 2009 to October 2012</dt>
<dd>Fran&ccedil;ois-Ren&eacute; Rideau is de facto maintainer,
with notable contributions from Robert P. Goldman, but also
Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll and James Anderson.
ASDF 2 released
ASDF 2.000 is released in May 2010
with many clean-ups, better configurability, some new features,
and updated documentation.
The ASDF 2 series culminates with ASDF 2.26 in October 2012,
which in addition to many bug fixes and small features
includes support for file encodings, around-compile and compile-check hooks.
Last version: 2.26.
</dd>
<dt>May 2006 to November 2009</dt>
<dd>Gary King is de facto maintainer,
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Nikodemus Siivola, Peter Van Eynde, Edi Weitz, Kevin Rosenberg.
The system made more robust, a few more features.
Last version: 1.97.
</dd>
<dt>August 2001 to May 2004</dt>
<dd>Developed by Daniel Barlow, with notable contributions from
<dd>Created then developed by Daniel Barlow, with notable contributions from
Christophe Rhodes, Kevin Rosenberg, Edi Weitz, Rahul Jain.
Last version: 1.85.
<dt>August 2001</dt>
<dd>Created by Daniel Barlow</dd>
</dd>
</dl>
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<p><span class="copyright"Copyright &copy; 2001-2013 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 2013-03-03</div>
<div id="timestamp">Last updated 2013-10-07</div>
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