<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' lang='en'> <head> <title>ASDF - Another System Definition Facility</title> <link type='text/css' href='style.css' rel='stylesheet' /> <meta name="author" content="the ASDF group"/> </head> <body> <div class="header"> <span class="logo"> <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/" title="ASDF Homepage"> <img src="lisp-logo120x80.png" title="ASDF homepage" width="100" alt="Lisp Lizzard" /> </a> </span> <h2>ASDF</h2><h4>Another System Definition Facility</h4> </div> <div class="contents"> <div class="system-links"> <ul> <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> <li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf.git;a=log" >Changelog</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="system-description"> <a id="what_it_is"></a> <h3>What it is</h3> <p>ASDF is a tool for describing how source files are organized: what depends on which and when. </p> <p>It is roughly what Common-Lisp hackers use to build software where C hackers would use say GNU Make. </p> <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. </p> <a id="documentation"></a> <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> </ul> <a href="downloads"></a> <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: </p> <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>, </li> <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, </li> <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> </li></ul> <a id="bugs"> <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. </p> <a id="mailing-list"></a> <h3>Mailing List</h3> <ul> <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. </li></ul> <h3>Contributing</h3> <p>Join our mailing list, check the code out from git, send questions, ideas and patches! </p> <a id="news"></a> <h3>What is happening</h3> <dl> <dt>December 2009 to April 2010</dt> <dd>François-René 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> </dl></div> <div id="footer"> <a class="nav" href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="xhtml1.1"><img src="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-containers/shared/buttons/xhtml.gif" width="80" height="15" title="valid xhtml button" alt="valid xhtml" /></a> <a class="nav" href="http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/" title="hacker"> <img src="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-containers/shared/buttons/hacker.png" width="80" height="15" title="hacker emblem" alt="hacker button" /></a> <a class="nav" href="http://www.lisp.org/" title="Association of Lisp Users"> <img src="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-containers/shared/buttons/lambda-lisp.png" width="80" height="15" title="ALU emblem" alt="ALU button" /></a> <a class="nav" href="http://common-lisp.net/" title="Common-Lisp.net"> <img src="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-containers/shared/buttons/lisp-lizard.png" width="80" height="15" title="Common-Lisp.net" alt="Common-Lisp.net button" /></a> <p><span class="copyright"Copyright © 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> </div></div> </body> </html>