[asdf-install-devel] asdf and symlinks on windows

[Gary King]

Hi Aaron,

As Faré said, the manual and ASDF-install have diverged and I'm completely unable to keep up with anything other than that thing called life (my apologies to all).

I'd also recommend checking out clbuild and QuickLisp.

regards,

On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Faré wrote:

> On 20 June 2010 02:20, Aaron Lahman <aaronla.android at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The tutorial here (http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/tutorial/setup.html) suggest not using symbolic links on windows, seeming to suggest windows doesn't have symbolic links. But it does (so long as your disk is NTFS).
>> 
>> Is there any known limitation with using symlinks on windows?
>> 
> The manual probably predates (decent) support for symlinks on Windows.
> 
> These days, asdf-install is obsolete and minimally maintained if at
> all. clbuild is the current "in" thing, and the up-and-coming thingie
> is quicklisp.
> 
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