From e498dacd8e63a6a2c368b9ba2950f379cc2537ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:57:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed items from the Introduction, per markup. --- doc/asdf.texinfo | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/asdf.texinfo b/doc/asdf.texinfo index 5be2ffe8..8a0aa149 100644 --- a/doc/asdf.texinfo +++ b/doc/asdf.texinfo @@ -215,15 +215,19 @@ ASDF development FAQs ASDF is Another System Definition Facility: a tool for specifying how systems of Common Lisp software -are comprised of components (sub-systems and files), +are made up of components (sub-systems and files), and how to operate on these components in the right order so that they can be compiled, loaded, tested, etc. ASDF presents three faces: one for users of Common Lisp software who want to reuse other people's code, one for writers of Common Lisp software who want to specify how to build their systems, -one for implementers of Common Lisp extensions who want to extend the build system. -@xref{Using ASDF,,Loading a system}, +and one for implementers of Common Lisp extensions who want to extend +the build system. +If you are new to ASDF, @pxref{Quick start summary,,the quick start +guide}. +For more specifics, +@pxref{Using ASDF,,Loading a system}, to learn how to use ASDF to load a system. @xref{Defining systems with defsystem}, to learn how to define a system of your own. @@ -231,12 +235,14 @@ to learn how to define a system of your own. the ASDF internals and how to extend ASDF. @emph{Nota Bene}: -We have released ASDF 2.000 on May 31st 2010, +We released ASDF 2.000 on May 31st 2010, and ASDF 3.0.0 on May 15th 2013. Releases of ASDF 2 and later have since then been included in all actively maintained CL implementations that used to bundle ASDF 1, -plus some implementations that didn't use to, -and has been made to work with all actively used CL implementations and a few more. +plus some implementations that previously did not. +ASDF has been made to work with all actively maintained CL +implementations and even a few implementations that are @emph{not} +actively maintained. @xref{FAQ,,``What has changed between ASDF 1 and ASDF 2?''}. Furthermore, it is possible to upgrade from ASDF 1 to ASDF 2 or ASDF 3 on the fly (though we recommend instead upgrading your implementation or its ASDF module). -- GitLab