Handling of readme and license files

[Mirko Vukovic]

somewhat off-topic to the original question:

Can :static-file be used for files part of unit tests? Such as unit tests
for log-parsers.

Thanks,

Mirko

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 7:24 PM Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:

> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm working with a project that bundles up CL systems, and then copies
> > them to a remote host.  To avoid copying unnecessary files, we rely on
> > the components and additional-input-files to find all the files needed
> > to load the system on the remote host.
> >
> > I found some ASD files to load on the remote host. These systems are
> > expecting to read a long-description, usually a readme file.  All of
> > these projects are using reader macros to load this data, and none of
> > them declare the file as a :static-file component.
> >
> > It's also often the case that the license of a project requires a copy
> > of the license be shipped with the project. Yet rarely do I see any
> > project declaring a :static-file for one in their asd file.
> >
> > Am I correct in my understanding that using :static-files is this the
> > current recommended way to declare these files?
>
> ASDF is a build system, not a software packaging system.
> The :STATIC-FILE component was meant to handle data files that might
> be required at runtime, not any metadata in general.
>
> --
> Stelian Ionescu
>
>
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