Thoughts on CL-scripting

[Attila Lendvai]

> 3- It fails badly when asdf itself is so broken that it can't load
> asdf-tools. I only very recently (January 2016) modified the lisp
> scripting infrastructure to build an executable ./build/asdf-tools the
> first time they are called, hopefully with a stable working asdf.

isn't this a standard bootstrapping issue?

and the usual way to resolve that is to use git to check out the
latest stable version into a tmp dir, build the tool, and then use the
freshly built tool to test the bleeding edge.

for reference gambit scheme has a sophisticated method set up for
adding new features that are then used in the compiler implementation
in version n+1.

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