ASDF walkthrough

[Faré]

Regarding this interactive ASDF walkthrough, at this point,
I'm trying to find how many people are interested in attending,
and finding a convenient date and time for everyone.
The intended date would be between January 17-26,
by which time ASDF 3.1.1 will be released, hopefully.

The session should be about 2 hour long.
I'm considering a week day starting between 1700 EST and 0000 EST (UTC-5),
preferably 2000 EST. I am more flexible during weekends.

The session limited to 10 people max, but if there is a lot of interest,
I could do two sessions (or more?) with slightly different focus:
maybe 1- using and extending ASDF vs 2- maintaining and hacking it;
or 1- uiop vs 2- defsystem,
or 1- current state of ASDF vs 2- historic view from ASDF 1 to ASDF 4.

One of my motivations is that
I intend to retire from active development of ASDF, and
only actively fix remaining bugs in UIOP, as needed,
but I'd like to leave behind something that's hackable.
Another motivation is that I believe ASDF is a nice little gem,
that was unearthed in the raw by Dan Barlow,
that I have been cutting and polishing,
and treating with radiation for enhanced color,
though I can't remove some imperfections inside.
It's far from perfect, but it has ideas worth appreciating.

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
> I am interested.
>
> 03.01.2014, 11:19, "Faré" <fahree at gmail.com>:
>> Dear Lisp hackers,
>>
>> I'm considering recording a walk through the ASDF sources.
>>
>> I'd like to have an interactive session over Google Hangout
>> with one or a few people, explaining the current code in asdf/defsystem
>> (i.e. not going into uiop, except to minimally explain what asdf uses).
>> That should take about 2 hours.
>>
>> To enjoy the walkthrough, you need to be somewhat fluent in Common Lisp,
>> and somewhat familiar with how to use ASDF, though not necessarily with
>> either extending it or hacking its internals.
>>
>> If at least one person is familiar with ASDF 2 and has questions,
>> that could be interesting, or that could be a separate session.
>>
>> Please respond me to this email (privately or publicly) if you're interested.
>>
>> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
>> If a trainstation is where the trains stop, what is then a workstation...
>>         — Lars Lundgren <d95lars at dtek.chalmers.se>