Status of ASDF / Updating ASDF

[Elias Pipping]

Dear list,

the current version of ASDF that comes with MKCL is reported as 3.0.3.0.2,
which I take to mean a patched version of ASDF 3.0.3. Indeed, if I create
a diff between ASDF 3.0.3 and what comes with MKCL, at a first glance,
it appears to be rather longish yet made up solely of mkcl-specific changes.

I’d like to use MKCL in conjunction with a more recent version of ASDF, e.g.
because cl-launch requires at least ASDF 3.1.2. The number of occurrences
of the string #+mkcl in the ASDF sources is much higher now than it was with
3.0.3 (because the aforementioned diff has been upstreamed?) which
suggests that a more recent ASDF could be more easily gotten to work with
MKCL...?

I’m wondering if anyone has been able to get a recent version to work, if it's
maybe even supposed to work out of the box, if there’s a right way and a
wrong way, if anyone’s working on a patch, etc.


Elias Pipping