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From: alarson@pavo.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Aaron Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Public defsystem
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Date: 8 Apr 89 15:35:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: harrisr@cs.rpi.edu's message of 8 Apr 89 00:10:47 GMT

In article <23321@coherent.com> hastings@coherent.com (Reed Hastings) writes:
>
>Does anyone know where I can get a public domain defsystem
>facility?
>
>Thanks,
>  -Reed.

Along with probably half the people doing lisp development, we too have
developed our own defsystem toolset.  We have been using it in house for
several months.  Its main features:

  - Supports a number of module types including systems, subsystems, and
    "foreign" languages. 
  - Supports multiple versions of systems using subdirectories.
  - Supports multiple binary types (in same directory tree) using
    subdirectories.  (e.g. you can compile the same system with different
    compilers, and it keeps the bins straight).
  - Has been fully ported to Franz Allegro & Symbolics 7.2, and partially
    ported to Lucid & KCL. (implemen specific stuff has mostly to do with
    pathnames and foreign modules.  Pathname stuff is done for Lucid & KCL
    but not tested).
  - Is written using PCL. (runs in 3/17 and 12/7)
  - does not support patches
  - does not (yet) have compile time only dependencies
  - has some user documentation

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