[asdf-devel] Tutorial ASDF(?)

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On 21 May 2011 02:00, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Can you give a reason for not compiling .asd files?

> Historical reasons: .asd files are meant to only contain simple stuff,

Not that this really matters, but ... this is not so.

.asd files have always been meant to contains things like custom
component definitions and defmethods for them -- not "just simple
stuff". Historically speaking compiling .asd files used to work fine,
assuming they set up their packages right -- which is one of the major
reasons for the

(defpackage :foo-system ...)

(in-package :foo-system)

(defsystem :foo ...)

pattern one sometimes sees. Not sure if it is still expected to work.

Cheers,

 -- nikodemus