Re: Improve ASDF build system for Common Lisp libraries

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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.

-- 
Ricardo