[asdf-devel] fare-utils build failure

[Zach Beane]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

> Cc'ng asdf-devel.
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>> Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> How do I get asdf-driver?
>>>>
>>> It's currently part of the asdf git tree. Should I make it separate?
>>> I think you can already include asdf-driver.asd without including asdf.
>>
>> What is the relationship between asdf-driver and asdf? What is a driver?
>>
> asdf uses asdf-driver.
> asdf-driver is currently distributed as part of the asdf source tree,
> but if that is an issue, there is no barrier to splitting it apart.
>
> For bootstrap purposes, the source code of asdf-driver is transcluded
> into asdf.lisp as a prelude to asdf, so asdf can rely on it.
>
> asdf-driver is a general purpose portability and runtime management library.
> It provides various abstraction layers for packages,
> pathnames, command-line arguments, compilation, condition-muffling,
> run-program, image dump and restore with hooks, basic I/O, etc.

For nearly all other libraries, there is a repo or .tgz file I can
download to package it up for Quicklisp. It would be nice if that was
the case for asdf-driver, too.

Zach