[asdf-devel] Incrementally extending the source registry?

[Zach Beane]

Daniel Herring <dherring at tentpost.com> writes:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Zach Beane wrote:
>
>> Say I download a tarball that has a number of projects in it:
>>
>>  $ tar xzvf fooprojects.tgz
>>  fooprojects/neato/neato.asd
>>  fooprojects/neato/neato.lisp
>>  fooprojects/stuff/stuff.asd
>>  fooprojects/stuff/stuff.lisp
>>  fooprojects/xyz/xyz.asd
>>  fooprojects/xyz/xyz.lisp
>>
>> If these are now unpacked in ~/src/fooprojects/, how can I add that tree
>> to my ASDF source registry by calling ASDF functions?
>
> Umm, drop a few :directory definitions or one :tree definition in 
> ~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/NN-fooproject.conf
>
> See
> http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf/Configuring-ASDF.html
> http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf/Controlling-where-ASDF-searches-for-systems.html
>
>> Say a few minutes later I download another tarball with a number of
>> projects in it:
>>
> ...
>>
>> If these are now unpacked in ~/src/barprojects/, how can I add that tree
>> to my ASDF soruce registry by calling ASDF functions, without losing the
>> previous fooprojects registration?
>
> Same, but in NN-barproject.conf

Is there any way to do it in the running system only, i.e. without
writing out files?

Zach