[Gardeners] CLOCC, CCLAN, vn-cclan

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:44 AM, Paolo Amoroso wrote:

> John Connors <johnc at yagc.ndo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> [...]
>>> If you are willing to contribute for separately repackaging port
>>> and/or other subsystems, I suggest that you write to the CLOCC 
>>> mailing
>>> list.  Last time I checked, they were apparently not interested in
>>> .asd files for the major subsystems.
> [...]
>> Why not?
>
> I don't know.  I wrote to the CLOCC mailing list asking whether there
> was interest in .asd files, and I received no feedback.  Some time
> later, I was contacted offlist from the author of a CLOCC subsystem,
> to whom I sent the files.

As you know, the CLOCC is a strange beast.  Essentially there is a core 
of code that is maintained by Sam plus a number of other bits and 
pieces that are maintained by other people.  I guess that no response 
does not mean that the asd files are not wanted.  It just means that 
the different authors have other to-do lists in their hands.

In the case of the systems I maintain on the CLOCC, I'd say that only 
CL-CONFIGURATION (which is - I admit - suffering from a bit of bit rot) 
requires a asd file.  The others are quite basic utilities which I 
wrote in order to support "defsystem" utilities, e.g. CL-ENVIRONMENT 
(which instead is well maintained, at least in CVS).  Hence they come 
with their own specialized loader/compiler script.

Cheers

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