Problems with DEFSYSTEM-DEPENDS-ON

Mark Evenson evenson at panix.com
Sun Apr 1 12:57:38 UTC 2018



> On Apr 1, 2018, at 14:20, Attila Lendvai <attila at lendvai.name> wrote:
> 
>> The usage of DEFSYSTEM-DEPENDS-ON to specify dependencies that will be
>> satisfied by QL:QUICKLOAD no longer seems to be working in asdf-3.3.1.
> 
> FTR, here's the history of this issue:
> 
> https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/pull/122#issuecomment-160419822
> 
> https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/108


Wow!  Holy stale complications, batman!

Robert apparently suggested something (apparently) much simpler in 

  https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/pull/128

but without any commentary from Zach on that approach.

Given asdf-3.3 is out, and recent sbcl’s ship with it, which is the preferred way forward from ASDF’s perspective?





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