[asdf-devel] distributing asdf

[Faré]

> Now I don't get a package conflict, I get "Your ASDF version is too old."
> I'm using 2.26. Is taht really too old?
>
tldr: just update whichever libraries used to depend on xcvb-driver.

Long version:

That's message from xcvb-driver. I will make it clearer.

Yes, on the one hand, 2.26 is too old for xcvb-driver.

On the other hand, no program should be needing xcvb-driver anymore
except xcvb itself (which is broken, in need of serious updating
after the last year or so of asdf improvements; I just made a minimal
adjustment so at least it compiles, and released that).

Now that asdf-driver does everything that xcvb-driver did and much more
as far as everyone but xcvb itself is concerned,
all my systems that used to depend on xcvb-driver for its runtime support
instead depend on asdf-driver.


NB:
The runtime support that used to be in xcvb-driver and is now in asdf-driver
includes such things as:
run-program, stream handling, condition muffling, environment access,
command-line arguments, quitting, image dumping and restoring, etc.
>From the old asdf, asdf-driver also has pathname abstractions,
encoding support, lisp compilation support,
some generic configuration file support.
And from two months of hacking, debugging, and
automatic testing on 12 different implementations,
asdf-driver has a more robust and self-sufficient version of all that,
including a cleaned up API, a few general purpose utilities,
and hot-upgradable package support.

In other words, I would like asdf-driver to become a universally available
portability layer to bridge the differences between all CL implementations.
The minimal "batteries included" that all Lisps require
to interact with the underlying operating system in a portable way.
I used to miss a usable, portable run-program, or access to command-line
arguments. Now I have all that. It sure makes for a simpler cl-launch.
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