[asdf-devel] Advanced Configuration

[FAU]

Hello Faré,

Thanks for your comments.  I downloaded asdf-source-in-package.lisp
which may provide a good starting point.

Thanks,
Frank


On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 04:01 -0500, Faré wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:40 AM, FAU <fau at riseup.net> wrote:
> > I'd like to find out if I can do this with ASDF.
> >
> > (defun foo ()
> >   #+foo1.0
> >   :foo1.0
> >   #+foo1.1
> >   :foo1.1
> >   )
> >
> > As you can see the behaviour of the fn foo depends on version request
> > features (which, lets say, represents the API version and not the
> > software package version) which must be pushed on *features* before the
> > system is compiled (or loaded).
> >
> > I'd like to have ASDF reject any operation on system foo if there's not
> > an appropriate API version request feature present for it and notify
> > the user in some way.
> >
> > I'd like to keep multiple fasls for different API versions in the
> > cache.  (One way to achieve this, which comes to my mind, would be to
> > mangle the name of the fasl output file name to incorporate the version
> > in same way or to change the output directory path.)
> >
> Dear Frank,
> 
> You could have a form in foo.asd that uses #+ or (featurep ...) to
> query the features,
> and control that in your build scripts before you call ASDF on your system.
> However, I don't recommend this strategy.
> 
> I recommend you compile either only the latest version by default, or
> compile all versions if compatibility is a must, and select at runtime
> via some parameter or hook.
> 
> In general, anything that makes compilation non-deterministic is to be
> frowned upon.
> 
> That said, I remember that at ITA, h4ns did a subclass of
> cl-source-file so that a file could be compiled twice (with a
> different output name, each time), one in each of two packages. You
> could do something similar, except with two features. In the recently
> published snapshot of QUUX, see in
> lisp/qres-build/asdf-source-in-package.lisp for inspiration.
> 
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