[asdf-devel] Alternate default lisp system location

[Robert P. Goldman]

I am sorry, but I promise you that this will NOT be consistent with XDG. I have no idea why those people think it's a good idea to put files in directories where ls cannot find them.

ASDF already has a deeply-nested, invisible-to-ls location that is XDG compliant where you can put your files if that's what floats your boat.

It was writing a description of where to put your files in this XDG-compliant location that convinced me that we needed an alternative that was obvious and easily accessible.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm not a fan of this standard! :-)

On March 12, 2014 10:10:20 PM CDT, Daniel Herring <dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
>
>> ~/asdf-local-paths/
>>
>> would work for me.
>>
>> Squawks sooner rather than later, please.
>
>If we are decided on adding a default path, please make it consistent
>with 
>the other XDG stuff in ASDF...
>
>I'm not XDG guru, but here's a link to the standard...
>
>http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
>It looks like default paths would belong under $XDG_DATA_HOME and 
>$XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
>Looking at the current ASDF manual, it appears that there is already
>some 
>support for this concept?
>
>http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html#Controlling-where-ASDF-searches-for-systems
>
>""
>The source registry will be configured from a default configuration.
>This 
>configuration may allow for implementation-specific systems to be
>found, 
>for systems to be found the current directory (at the time that the 
>configuration is initialized) as well as :directory entries for 
>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/common-lisp/systems/ and :tree entries for 
>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/common-lisp/source/. For instance, SBCL will include 
>directories for its contribs when it can find them; it will look for
>them 
>where SBCL was installed, or at the location specified by the SBCL_HOME
>
>environment variable
>""
>
>
>Later,
>Daniel

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