[noctool-devel] Re: image.asd fixes

[Jim Prewett]

I'm going to go ahead and change the strings in noctool.asd into symbols.  
When we do get something ready for the general public, I want the 
ASDF-INSTALL process to be as painless as possible :)

Jim

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Ingvar wrote:

> > Hi Ingvar,
> > 
> > While using ASDF-INSTALL to get a new noctool setup going, I found that 
> > the image package used strings instead of symbols for the packages that it 
> > depends on.  This confuses the heck out of asdf-install (but seems to work 
> > OK for ASDF - HMMM... sounds like it might be a bug in ASDF-INSTALL, 
> > but... well, I don't want to spend the time reading the spec to determine 
> > that ;P :)
> > 
> > I've attached a modified version of image.asd from image-0.6 - the changes 
> > are by no means profound :)
> > 
> > Using the attached image.asd made my asdf-install go very smoothly. :)
> 
> If you look at noctool.asd, it too is using strings instead of symbols. I 
> suspect it's more of an issue with ASDF-INSTALL than with the ASDF system 
> definition, myself.
> 
> //Ingvar
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