[cells-devel] Cello updates and... OS X or Bust!!!!

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Kenneth Tilton writes:
 > 
 > On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
 > 
 > >   You mentioned on
 > > cll something about there being an aspect of asdf that you couldn't
 > > abide -- since you're now in the world of no-Allegro-IDE, what would
 > > that be?
 > 
 > You probably will remember: the ACL project manager loads everything in 
 > the order the source is listed. When it gets to something out of date, 
 > it recompiles. Both ASDF and mk::defsystem first look for things out of 
 > date and try to recompile (tho dependencies are honored).
 > 
 > I like the ACL approach because I can handle some dependencies via the 
 > order of the files. I can see the advantage of the other approach (auto 
 > handling of changes to macros), but having tried to adjust to the 
 > asdf/mk way I still find myself longing for the acl way. But I might 
 > come around on this some day.

Oh yeah, that.  You can definately coerce asdf into doing it the acl
way.  I'm pretty sure I didn't do that for asdf-aclproj, but I thought
about it and decided it was doable.