[Asdf-devel] Some ASDF patches

[Faré]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> Faré wrote:
>>> I'm finding the run-program tests fail for me on Mac OS X, on both SBCL
>>> > and Allegro (haven't tried other lisps yet), which will probably keep me
>>> > from addressing the minimakefile yet AGAIN).  :-(
>>> >
>> Oops. What version last passed the tests? Did you check that it was
>> not an environment change? And if not, bissect to the offending patch?
>
> I'm pretty sure it *is* an environment change. Just need to track it
> down. I'll update everything and try again.
>
> Occurs to me that the LISP-INVOCATION library would be a good thing to
> add if we can make the git submodules thing work out.
>
I looked at a few pages criticizing git submodules, but it looks like
for the present use case, it is actually ideal:
1- the dependencies don't change too often.
2- we prefer them pinned at a given known-working version rather than
tracking the latest.
3- we won't branch them.
4- we can check out and work on asdf.git without having to checkout
the submodules.

If point 4 holds, we can actually use it on the main asdf repository
itself, rather than create a separate git repository for it.

And yes, lisp-invocation is great, and is used by our program-op tests
and by the minimakefile branch.

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