[Ecls-list] Changes with new ASDF version?

[Jean-Pierre Flori]

2012/12/14 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpflori at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/12/14 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com>:
>> > ECL now relies on ASDF-bundle, an utility library which is part of ASDF
>> > and
>> > which allows creating executables and big FASL  [...]
>> I saw that.
>
>
> No, you did not read carefully what I said: ECL now relies on
> ***ASDF-BUNDLE***. ASDF-Bundle is a different library from the one we used
> for building executables (ASDF-ECL), and it lives as a separate project,
> http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/asdf/asdf-bundle.git though it will
> probably become part of ASDF soon.
>
>>
>> What I know is that we already used asdf before (the command we use
>> leaves no doubt about this fact).
>
>
> No, you were not using ASDF. You were using ASDF-ECL which was a modified
> version of ASDF shipped with ECL.
>
>>
>> What is strange is that I changed nothing but now get maxima-system.fasb
>> instead of maxima.fasb.
>
>
> You did not change anything, but ASDF has changed. The new library follows a
> different naming policy and, since I do not develop it, I have little to
> say.
>
>>
>> I'm not sure I completely get what you mean, sorry about that.
>> The problem here is not the suffix (if we agree that suffix means
>> anything after the final dot), but that the "-system" part just before
>> the dot.
>
>
> -system is a suffix that ASDF-Bundle adds to the name of any library or
> program (in this case maxima) that was built from whole libraries.
>
>> So are you telling me that our command is fine, and that the produced
>> file is identical, except for its name because ASDF decided that the
>> new name reflects better what is produced as the previous name did?
>> I'll be fine very fine with that.
>
>
> Indeed. The name just reflects the protocol and sets of rules that the new
> library uses for building executables and libraries. I believe the suffix
> can be eliminated but I do not know how to do it right now.
Oh I see.
Thanks a lot for your patience!

-- 
Jean-Pierre Flori