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Mudballs... Dead?
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:01 pm
by gugamilare
In mudballs mailing list (actually, google group)
it was announced that the author, Sean Ross, can't continue to maintain the project anymore. It is a pity, since, with some extra work, it could be made a very good replacement for ASDF and clbuild.
I sure hope that there is a brave person to take the project. I can't take it right now.
Re: Mudballs... Dead?
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:40 pm
by smithzv
I am not volunteering myself for Mudballs, but I would like more information. Why Mudballs over something else? Are there any experienced individuals out there that can sum up the differences between the available build systems? I already am pretty familiar with ASDF, but I have seen these projects pop up now and then:
1. clbuild
2. xcvb
3. POIU
4. Mudballs
5. defsystem (already dead?)
These all seem to be relatively active, and there are probably a few more I missed...
Re: Mudballs... Dead?
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:56 am
by gugamilare
smithzv wrote:I am not volunteering myself for Mudballs, but I would like more information. Why Mudballs over something else? Are there any experienced individuals out there that can sum up the differences between the available build systems? I already am pretty familiar with ASDF, but I have seen these projects pop up now and then:
1. clbuild
2. xcvb
3. POIU
4. Mudballs
5. defsystem (already dead?)
These all seem to be relatively active, and there are probably a few more I missed...
clbuild is very neat (I use it), but it is not an ASDF replacement or something, it actually works with ASDF. And clbuild is much better than asdf-install because you can easily incorporate some project in the list and download it as if it were already there, . you can:
- clean fasl files of some project or of all of them,
- (re)compile a project
- dump a core (save the lisp image for fast startup - this is a hand on the wheel)
- create a new project (it initializes a git repo automatically as well)
Mudballs was more or less like asdf + asdf-install, with a advantages over both of them together. See
Mudballs.com for more info (there is an intro and a short FAQ in the beginning). With a few more work, it could become as good as or even better than clbuild in downloading projects.
I don't know about the other projects so I can't talk about them.
Re: Mudballs... Dead?
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:08 am
by aerique
gugamilare wrote:I don't know about the other projects so I can't talk about them.
Defsystem was the predecessor to ASDF.