On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Robert Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
With all due respect, this seems contentious and unsupported. I don't<br>
see any particular reason to believe that a tool for the coherent<br>
maintenance of a long-running image would also be a good fit for more<br>
conventional development.<br></blockquote><div><br>You do not see it, but there other users out there that do. I do not need to keep my image up and runnign throughout my development process and I can still achieve the same thing. I am not disputing your development model, I am disputing that anyone wishes to impose anything like that on anybody else.<br>
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There are already tools for the non-image-driven development. If ECL is<br>
not aiming at image-driven development, maybe a tool like make, or make<br>
+ autoconf would be a better fit.<br></blockquote><div><br>I do not see why and how. Compiling lisp systems can only be done from lisp environments. This is not like you write "ecl my-file.lisp" and get something else precisely because that lisp file depends on a lot of other things.<br>
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That said, if you wish to try to make ASDF work for conventional<br>
build-and-exit system construction, and that doesn't break ASDF for<br>
image integrity maintenance, more power to you!<br></blockquote></div><br>This is what I am claiming that it is possible to achieve, but hey this is like walking on a 1km lane covered with velcro and me having socks, friction everywhere :-) <br>
With all due respect, I can understand some people polarize against ASDF.<br><br>Juanjo<br><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://tream.dreamhosters.com">http://tream.dreamhosters.com</a><br>