Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!a.gp.cs.cmu.edu!mkant
From: mkant@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: version management
Message-ID: <8583@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 20:55:55 GMT
References: <2151.26055a8f@cc.helsinki.fi>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 26


	From: pirinen@cc.helsinki.fi
	Subject: version management
	Date: 19 Mar 90 22:17:51 GMT
	Organization: University of Helsinki

	I am looking for references on software version management in Lisp.
	I would be delighted to find a sophisticated system, tailored for Lisp,
	but any information will be appreciated.  Since my interest is for
	the design of such a system, a technical proposal would be of
	equal value to a manual of a product that's actually being marketed.

	I have used DEFSYSTEM in ZetaLisp release 6: nice, but quite
	conventional. Since then, Symbolics has surely not been idle?

I have been developing a common lisp portable defsystem macro for
managing (compiling/loading) systems of files. It is a superset of the
Symbolics system construction tool, and is rather featureful.

I haven't fully torture-tested it, but am using it for my own work.
I'm still adding features as well. 

Would there be interest in my posting a copy of the sources and
documentation to the net? If so, what newsgroup?

--mark