[asdf-devel] asdf and quicklisp

[Zach Beane]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>
>     I stopped updating ASDF versions when it seemed to require asdf-ecl.lisp
>     to work on ECL. Is the case? Can ECL get by with asdf.lisp alone?
>
>
> Since Faré took over ASDF, ASDF has worked perfectly fine with ECL so that is
> not a reason not to upgrade. However, asdf-ecl.lisp was not developed to fix
> asdf.lisp, but to introduce operations that make ASDF more efficient with ECL. 
>
> In other words, ECL can do with asdf alone but this is undesirable. For
> instance, quicklisp's reliance on 'ASDF:LOAD-OP implies loading an average of
> 10 times more files than ECL's ASDF:LOAD-FASL-OP, and also a greater pressure
> on the operating system, for ECL relies on native methods for loading binaries.
>
> Moreover, asdf-ecl allows one to take quicklisp distribution and produce a
> standalone executable, or a shared library (DLL) with one ASDF operation. This,
> which I find extremely nice, has been ported by Fare to other implementations
> in a successor to asdf-ecl that I have not yet had the time to integrate in
> ECL.

Does ECL include asdf-ecl already, and track each new release of ASDF?

Zach