[armedbear-devel] [OT] best way to structure and deploy a project

[Alessio Stalla]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Ville
Voutilainen<ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/24 Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com>:
>> When I run the project from the IDE, I launch a class which compiles
>> and loads the Lisp systems using asdf. This works for me locally, but
>> thinking about distributing the project to users, this approach has
>> some drawbacks:
>> - Lisp files must be true files, they can't be in a Jar (asdf doesn't
>> understand jars).
>> - Lisp files are recompiled every time, since the IDE always
>> overwrites the Lisp source files in the output directory.
>> - If I make a jar, it will contain Lisp source files, not binaries,
>> since binaries are unknown to the IDE.
>
> Create an ANT project, that allows you to do almost anything. Many java
> IDEs will be able to build with the ANT project (without trying to do their own
> clever, or not so clever wizardry), thus allowing all the flexibility
> that ANT allows.

Ok, good advice: this way I can compile the Java files first, then
have ANT launch ABCL and compile my system with ASDF, and then package
everything in a jar (depending on the target). However, when
distributing the compiled library, I will still need code to load the
Lisp parts (e.g. by extracting them and using asdf), am I correct?
It's not a big deal actually... too bad ANT doesn't understand sexps,
only xml ;)

Ale