[Gcl-devel] ASDF 2.013 released

[Faré]

Dear GCL developers,

I've just released ASDF 2.013. I don't know if you're still actively
developing GCL, but ASDF 2 reportedly works on GCL CVS HEAD, though
it fails to pass our test suite apparently due to bugs
in how GCL supports conditions — an major annoyance, but
it doesn't prevent software from being loaded
when the conditions are not raised.

I think it would be great if GCL were to include ASDF 2 so you could
(require :asdf)
See recommendations in the ASDF manual regarding inclusion by vendors.
http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf/

PS: I created a mailing-list asdf-announce.
Maybe someone amongst you could join it,
so I don't need to push my announces to this mailing-list.
Or maybe I can just Cc: my announce to this mailing-list
and not bother with further explanations?

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
Multiple instances of a same hacker with different context in his mental
cache count as multiple hackers wrt documentation and testing needs.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Faré <address@hidden>
Date: 20 March 2011 00:29
Subject: ASDF 2.013 released
To: address@hidden


Dear Common Lisp Users,

I just blessed ASDF 2.012.12 as 2.013.
It includes many small improvements since previous release,
for portability, robustness, usability.
For the sake of making these improvements available to all users,
I invite all vendors and packagers to update their software
to include this latest release.

Improvements since 2.012:
 * Fixes and cleanups for CLISP, ECL, SBCL.
 * Added support for two legacy platforms: (R)MCL, Genera
 * Cleanup features: now using #+asdf-unix and #+asdf-window
 * Many cleanups and improvements regarding our portable pathname layer
 * Fixes a regression in source-registry scanning from 2.011.4
 * Remember *source-registry-parameter* and *output-translations-parameter*
 * Export and document coerce-pathname (f.k.a merge-component-name-type)
 * allow description and long-description for all components
 * Several documentation updates

Happy hacking,

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
I hold that America, Champion of the World is a betrayal of
its humble beginnings as One Nation Underdog.