Re: Improve ASDF build system for Common Lisp libraries

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
>> Some .asd definitions have dependencies (declared with
>> :system-depends-on).
>> A common dependency is prove-asdf.
>>
>> If we read all .asd then we must drag all ASDF dependencies.  This can be a
>> burden, say, for a test system that is not supported in Guix at the moment.
>>
>> My intuition is that parsing all ASD files is a good default behaviour
>> but we should allow to override it with the asd-files keyword.
>
> Sounds good to me.  When asd-files is provided we respect it, otherwise
> we’ll try to use them all.

+1 to allowing overrides for =asd-files=. If nothing else, packages need
to be flexible!

In addition to what Pierre is pointing out, the only issue I can think
of with reading in all asd files is perhaps source trees which vendor
packages. I don't think this is common in Common Lisp source trees, so
maybe that's something we can deal with if it comes up.

-- 
Katherine