[pro] Are you an Imager or a Filer?

[Jacob Kozinn]

I haven't looked at cl-launch in a while, but remember it looking promising.
Thanks.

I also looked briefly into ASDF2 but can't remember recognizing any
advantages to moving to it from ASDF. I am sure the advantages are there
though. What am I missing?



On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 January 2011 11:16, Jacob Kozinn <jacobkozinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is the best thing I've read on the Pro list so far, I think.
> > I'm a filer, but as I deploy multiple cloud instances, I'm starting to
> think
> > about the advantages of imaging.
> > However, I have little experience with it. Especially on Debian.
> > Anybody have good resources on imaging that are not obtainable through a
> > superficial web search?
> >
> For making images, there is
> * Xach's buildapp, which is great but sbcl-only
> * my own cl-launch, which is portable, and can be complemented with my
> command-line-argument library, or Didier Verna's CLON (ported only to
> a few platforms).
>
> Both rely on ASDF2, which any modern implementation should provide,
> and/or that you can get by yourself.
>
> [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics |
> http://fare.tunes.org ]
> Lie, n.:
>        A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one
> discovered to date.
>



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Jacob Kozinn
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