[Asdf-devel] Problem with Minimakefile branch -- was Re: Merging experimental-submodules

[Robert P. Goldman]

Kambiz Darabi wrote:
> I don't know how many people are devs and how many people just 'users'
> in the sense that they clone the repo and use it without caring about
> the dependencies of asdf.
> 
> But your point is definitively valid.

Actually, Kambiz's point is a good one, and it illustrates a real
problem with the minimakefile branch.

With the old makefile, all someone needed to do if they were to checkout
and test ASDF was to grab the git repo, and type

make test l=<my lisp>

Now this process is substantially more complicated because now the user
will have to go to substantially more work to get our not extensively
tested CL infrastructure up and running.

We should seriously consider revising the minimakefile so that testing
does not require CL scripting, but instead goes back to using make and
bash alone.

Best,
r