[armedbear-devel] Re: cl-test-grid: Testing ABCL-1.2.0-RC

[Zach Beane]

Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> writes:

> 11.06.2013, 07:30, "Faré" <fahree at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>
>>>  xcvb-bridge fails most likely due to new ASDF. Can not comment other failures (exscribe, g-lib-cffi, cl-6502)
>>
>> The old xcvb-bridge in QL is broken; the newer XCVB from git not only
>> handles but requires a recent ASDF, which is why it can't be used by
>> the current Quicklisp.
>
> To be even more precise, the newer XCVB from git CAN be used with new
> Quicklisp if new ASDF is loaded into the Lips. As we know, Quicklisp first
> tries (require 'asdf), so if the Lisp implementation comes with newer ASDF,
> the newer XCVB from git works.
>
> So we can hope that in the next Quicklisp release we will have the newer XCVB.
>
> Actually this probably depends on the ASDF version shipped with SBCL, as Xach
> evaluates all new library versions using SBCL before including them into Quicklisp.

A number of projects that build only with ASDF3 features (xcvb,
exscribe, inferior-shell, perhaps more) are unlikely to be in the next
update of the Quicklisp dist.

Zach