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14:49:55
easye
alandipert: ASDF is packaged from ABCL, so is reflected in the version of the Bear you are running.
14:51:41
easye
since I'm the only release engineer at this point, I guess you could say that I never need things that aren't in contrib or else I just add them. I've endeavored to allow users to easily customize what exists in local contrib by just packaging them.
14:52:23
easye
When I need Java artifacts available over the Maven POM distributed cache, I just name them, caching locally.
14:53:20
easye
When I need Lisp artifacts, I use a pegged Quicklisp that I advance manually as well as a quick override mechanism (lately by installing things in <file:~/common-lisp/>.
14:54:26
easye
And there is no good way to name CFFI dependencies, but this is a problem to be solved with other implmentations.
14:55:44
easye
"no good way to name CFFI" in a sense that is OS agnostic. Most people just end up using Linux, and picking a distribution.
16:09:41
alandipert
thanks, the management of the Bear version is what i'm curious about, but that other information is very helpful