- Mailing Lists
- Getting it
- Darcs Changelog
- System Tests
This is not the ASDF-install you are looking for
ASDF-Install is old and unmaintained. A much better option is to be found in Quicklisp.
The rest of this document is left intact purely for the historically curious.
What it is
ASDF-Install is the start of Common Lisp's answer to CPAN: an internet-based, dependency-chasing, installation system. ASDF-Install was originally written for SBCL by Dan Barlow and then ported to other Lisps by Edi Weitz and many others. It knows how to work with systems defined by either ASDF or MK-Defsystem.
ASDF-Install is a tool for downloading and installing lisp packages. It:
downloads lisp libraries (defined using either ASDF or MK-Defsystem) and installs them in the local file system,
chases sub-system dependencies, and
uses PGP signatures to verify the provenance of the downloaded code (requires GPG)
The best sources of information on ASDF-Install are
The tutorial (written by Edi Weitz and now maintained by Gary King)
its CLiki page
Mailing Lists
- asdf-install-devel: A list for questions, patches, bug reports, and so on; It's for everything.
Where is it
The current asdf-install repository is on github and you can clone it using:
git clone git://github.com/gwkkwg/asdf-install Note that Some Lisps (e.g., SBCL (since 0.8.3) and OpenMCL (since 0.14.1) come with a version of ASDF-Install.
You can switch over to the portable version using the git version above, this gzipped tar file or using ASDF-Install itself (though you will probably need to edit your local configuration files in order to use this version.
What is happening
| 31 December 2012 | Finally updated the webpage to say "really, use Quicklisp! It's better and it's maintained".
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| 13 May 2010 | Picking up old threads. switched to git. incorporate Faré Rideau's ASDF2 patch
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| 13 June 2008 | Thanks to Scott Burson for pointing out that ASDF-Install has a README file (I had forgotten!) and that it was out of date. This, and the
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| 2 December 2007 | Dan Muller, Andy Cristina and Attila Lendvai greatly improve ASDF-Install's windows support. Thanks! These changes are in the unstable branch (see above) |
| 7 October 2006 | Updated to version 0.6.0; attempts to improve GPG handling by simplifying it. Added :where argument to the install command. Altered location handling so that 0 is always cancel. Began to rework tutorial. |
| 17 May 2006 | Moved from Source Forge to Common-Lisp.net |
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 Gary Warren King (gwking@metabang.com)
ASDF-Install has an MIT style license