[asdf-devel] Re: cl-quakeinfo and asdf3

[Robert P. Goldman]

Faré wrote:
> Dear Kevin,
> 
> as I'm handing out my ASDF duties to my successor Robert Goldman,
> I gave this a brief look again, and it looks like the issue is
> (1) your doing everything in cl-user, and
> (2) your assuming cl-user has allegro extensions such as if*
> This confuses SBCL, that warns about the suspicious undefined function if*,
> and other such things.
> 
> Some dependencies #-allegro :acl-compat and package use
> #+allegro :excl #-allegro acl-compat.excl could help.

I'm actually not sure what the assumptions are for QL.  Does it assume
that all libraries should be portable?  Can contributors proclaim their
systems to be non-portable, and does that affect QL function (and if so,
how)?  Does QL have a package chooser like, e.g., the emacs package
manager, that people use to interactively choose libraries?  I didn't
see one in a cursory look at quicklisp.org, and I've always just used QL
to install libraries that I knew about from out-of-band.

thx,
r