[ann] [asdf-install-announce] ASDF-Install move

[Gary King]

The version now on Common-Lisp.net has been radically restructured  
and also has several patches and improvements. The restructuring just  
pulls various related forms out of installer.lisp and into their own  
homes. Mostly, this was to help me organize and maintain it. The  
improvements include:

* More restarts involving the GPG key verification process so that,  
for example, you can switch to another process, retrieve a key and  
then try again.

* ASDF-Install now prints its version string when it is first loaded  
(it's at 0.5.2).

* I've tried to simplify the #+ / #- madness. There is still a ways  
to go for this to be complete.

* Note that ASDF-Install now only installs the packages you request  
and their required dependencies. Earlier versions would install the  
package associated with every system definition that it downloaded.

* There is a new keyword argument for the install command. If  you  
specify :propagate t, then install will try to get the latest version  
of every package required during the installation. If propagate is  
nil (the default and previous behavior), then ASDF will only download  
the requested package and any that you do not yet have. It will not  
download any packages that you have already installed. Note that ASDF- 
Install still isn't doing any useful version checking, but being able  
to ask for everything fresh seems like a useful stopgap measure.


Please let me know if anything goes astray.
-- 
Gary Warren King
metabang.com
http://www.metabang.com/
(413) 210 7511
gwking on #lisp (occasionally)


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