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Some tweaks to the documentation.

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......@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ For this reason, we have stopped supporting ASDF 1 and ASDF 2.
If you are using ASDF 1 or ASDF 2 and are experiencing any kind of issues or limitations,
we recommend you upgrade to ASDF 3
--- and we explain how to do that. @xref{Loading ASDF}.
(In the context of compatibility requirements,
ASDF 2.27, released on Feb 1st 2013, and further 2.x releases up to 2.33,
count as pre-releases of ASDF 3, and define the :asdf3 feature;
still, please use the latest release).
Also note that ASDF is not to be confused with ASDF-Install.
ASDF-Install is not part of ASDF, but a separate piece of software.
......@@ -214,7 +218,8 @@ so you may more easily modify it, we recommend clbuild.
@section Loading a pre-installed ASDF
Most recent Lisp implementations include a copy of ASDF 2, and soon ASDF 3.
Most recent Lisp implementations include a copy of ASDF 3,
or at least ASDF 2.
You can usually load this copy using Common Lisp's @code{require} function:
@lisp
......@@ -222,8 +227,10 @@ You can usually load this copy using Common Lisp's @code{require} function:
@end lisp
As of the writing of this manual,
the following implementations provide ASDF 2 this way:
abcl allegro ccl clisp cmucl ecl lispworks mkcl sbcl xcl.
the following implementations provide ASDF 3 this way:
abcl allegro ccl clisp cmucl ecl mkcl sbcl.
The following implementation only provide ASDF 2:
lispworks mkcl mocl xcl.
The following implementation doesn't provide it yet but will in an upcoming release:
scl.
The following implementations are obsolete, not actively maintained,
......@@ -335,15 +342,18 @@ see @pxref{Loading ASDF,,Loading an otherwise installed ASDF} below.
Note that there are some limitations to upgrading ASDF:
@itemize
@item
Previously loaded ASDF extension becomes invalid, and will need to be reloaded.
Previously loaded ASDF extensions become invalid, and will need to be reloaded.
This applies to e.g. CFFI-Grovel, or to hacks used by ironclad, etc.
Since it isn't possible to automatically detect what extensions are present
that need to be invalidated,
ASDF will actually invalidate all previously loaded systems
when it is loaded on top of a different ASDF version,
starting with ASDF 2.014.8 (as far as releases go, 2.015);
and it will automatically attempt this self-upgrade as its very first step
starting with ASDF 3.
when it is loaded on top of a forward-incompatible ASDF version
(as per @code{asdf/upgrade::*oldest-forward-compatible-asdf-version*}
which is 2.33 at the time of this writing).
Furthermore, starting with ASDF 3 (2.27 or later),
this self-upgrade will be automatically attempted as the first step
to any system operation, to avoid any possibility of
a catastrophic attempt to self-upgrade in midflight.
@item
For this an many other reasons,
......@@ -1361,7 +1371,7 @@ Please use the @code{if-feature} option instead.
@subsection feature requirement
This requirement was removed in ASDF 3.1.
It used to ensure a chain of component dependencies will raise an error,
It used to ensure that a chain of component dependencies will raise an error,
which in conjunction with if-component-dep-fails would offer
a roundabout way to express conditional compilation.
......@@ -2102,14 +2112,15 @@ lines like:
@lisp
#+sbcl (:file "cffi-sbcl")
@end lisp
An unfortunate side effect of this approach is tnoat no single
An unfortunate side effect of this approach is that no single
implementation can read the entire system.
This causes problems if, for example, one wished to design an @code{archive-op}
that would create an archive file containing all the sources, since
that would create an archive file containing all the sources, since
for example the file @code{cffi-sbcl.lisp} above would be invisible when
running the @code{archive-op} on any implementation other than SBCL.
ASDF components may therefore have an @code{:if-feature} option.
Starting with ASDF 3,
components may therefore have an @code{:if-feature} option.
The value of this option should be
a feature expression using the same syntax as @code{#+} does.
If that feature expression evaluates to false, any reference to the component will be ignored
......@@ -2932,7 +2943,7 @@ But so are good design ideas and elegant implementation tricks.
@node Controlling where ASDF saves compiled files, Error handling, Controlling where ASDF searches for systems, Top
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@chapter Controlling where ASDF saves compiled files
@cindex asdf-output-translations
@cindex asdf-output-translations
@vindex ASDF_OUTPUT_TRANSLATIONS
Each Common Lisp implementation has its own format
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