Running Lisp tests

[Mark Evenson]

> On Jun 11, 2019, at 14:05, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
> 
> If you prefer, I believe you could bundle prove to avoid the Quicklisp dependency, perhaps as a git submodule…

It is certainly a way forward to consider bundling PROVE, but since ABCL
already has a mechanism to install Quicklisp from the network by using its
unique capability to CL:OPEN a given URI, the better way forward might be:

   0) improve the handler for the condition to introspect the message from the
      condition signalled via ASDF

   1) introspect the existence of Quicklisp, installing if not present

    (require :abcl-contrib) 
    (asdf:load-system :quicklisp-abcl)

   2) then load and execute ABCL/TEST/ANSI/COMPILED
    (asdf:test-system :abcl/test/ansi/compile)

As a first stab, I will remove the reference to PROVE in the abcl.asd
definition, as this shouldn’t be happening as the :DEPENDS-ON (:PROVE) stanza
is a sibling dependency tree as near as I can tell.  I should swag [Ionna’s
code][asd-graph] to visualize the dependencies to see if this is indeed the
case.

In any event, I *really8* don’t want to mess with git submodules: I’d add a “vendor”
directory before submitting to that mess of a lack of engineering…


[asd-graph]: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/idimitriou/asd-graph

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