[mcclim-devel] asdf-install ready mcclim.asd

[Andreas Fuchs]

Hello,

I spent the last day hacking the McCLIM system definition.

My goals were:

  * Adding real dependency information for files, to improve the
    McCLIM user experience (it's notorious for its long compile cycles
    after a cvs up)
  * Making it ASDF-INSTALLable, via a system called :MCCLIM that pulls
    in the :CLIM system and a suitable backend

The .asd file at <URL:http://boinkor.net/lisp/mcclim.asd> is the
result. (Not attached because common-lisp.net doesn't allow .asd files
in attachments.)

As you can see, this drops support for all non-ASDF defsystems, and
gets us halfway through the first goal - I couldn't load all systems
to get dependency information from them (clim-opengl, clim-beagle and
scigraph), but the bigger systems like CLIM-CORE and CLIM are fully
working. After a change to setf-star.lisp, ASDF now recompiles 6 files
instead of 20. (-:

The second goal was easier: what I did was move the system definitions
for clim-clx, clim-opengl and beagle (now clim-beagle for consistency)
into the mcclim.asd file, and frobnicated the CLIM-LOOKS system to
depend on the correct backend system in the right circumstances.

I'm not absolutely sure if CLIM-LOOKS' behavior is correct for Mac
users (it loads beagle). If you have an MCL or OpenMCL installation,
so please test. Really, I only tested it on Linux/x86/X11/SBCL. Other
combinations were not tested. If you want to find out if it will work
for you, install it and run it yourself.

To install the system, follow these steps:

 1. put the mcclim.asd file into your McCLIM installation directory
 2. symlink it to a directory in your ASDF:*CENTRAL-REPOSITORY* (for
    SBCL users, this is ~/.sbcl/systems)
 3. On the lisp REPL, (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :mcclim)


If anybody does a snapshot of mcclim with this .asd file and puts the
ASDF-INSTALL link on http://cliki.net/mcclim, people will also be able
to asdf-install McClim.

Have fun,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <asf at boinkor.net>, asf at jabber.at, antifuchs--}-<<mixed>>