A modest proposition: DEFSYSTEM-DEPENDS-ON should die [was Re: What's the right way to extend ASDF with new symbols?]

Tue Feb 16 15:51:32 UTC 2016

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
> Trying again:
>
> Can someone please state what it is that Quicklisp needs?

Quicklisp needs some way to determine all the direct dependencies
required to load a system and its definition. It currently does this
by direct inspection of the defsystem form (with a *macroexpand-hook*)
*and* by registering an :around method for asdf:operate to catch any
direct calls to asdf:load-system.

-Eric