Impact on modifying the current planning code (was Re: Plans for ASDF 3.3)

[Faré]

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
>     Still, what has been
>     implemented (and what I am proposing), seems to violate Faré's
>     description of ASDF as a build system that should only deal with
>     Common Lisp artifacts.
>
I don't remember writing that ASDF *should* only deal with CL
artifacts. Historically, that's what it always did; but "CL artifacts"
has included "C code linked into the CL runtime" for a *long* time.
And this year, this includes static linking as well as dynamic
linking. Moreover, ASDF has the potential of doing more than that.
Indeed, cl-unicode drives processing of data files using ASDF. QRes
also used to massage its configuration files or to generate CL code
from ASDF.

ASDF *should* do whatever you need to build your CL application. Now
to actually make that happens can be easy or hard, depending on what
that is.

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