[asdf-devel] asdf 2.015

[Faré]

I promoted 2.014.17 as 2.015. Since 2.014, we have the following improvements:

  * Portability: support cormanlisp, xcl;
    fixes for cmucl, ecl;
    tweaks for abcl, allegro, clisp, genera, lispworks.

  * Feature: un-cerror and fix the :force '(sys1 sys2 sys3) feature,
    introduced in 2002 and never working before.

  * Feature: classes asdf:cl-source-file.cl and asdf:cl-source-file.lsp
    for people who use these file type extensions.

  * Semantic change: the source-registry eagerly gathers a list of .asd,
    rather than querying the filesystem over and over again.

  * API change: exposing function asdf:search-for-system-definition
    as looking through asdf:*system-definition-search-functions* for
    either pathnames *or* (new feature) system objects.
    Should make quicklisp happier.

  * Better support for asdf upgrading itself,
    with new function asdf:upgrade-asdf
    that knows to invalidate old systems when necessary,
    and is magically invoked before building
    any system that :depends-on asdf.
    Make upgrade smoother some cases that were previously broken.

  * More robust handling of version strings.

  * Declaring function asdf:system-definition-pathname obsolete,
    but still supporting it for now, as an alias for
    asdf:system-source-file.

  * Various refactorings of internals.
    Splitting a function asdf::perform-plan
    out of the default asdf:operate method.
    asdf::register-system now takes only one argument.

  * Added tests to prevent the many regressions experienced
    during this development cycle

  * Tried and reverted: attempts to make asdf
    more verbose when it's verbose, but not verbose by default.

Thanks for testing. Please update your implementations and distributions
to include the latest stable ASDF, currently 2.015.

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