From: Jim Newton
Subject: multiple file projects
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:02:35 +0000
Message-ID: <2s5ns3F1g5v5iU1@uni-berlin.de>

does anyone have any advice about how to manage a lisp program
which contains multiple files.  as i understand there is no standard
loading mechanism.  Does there need to be some main file that
explicitly loads all the other files in the correct order?
What about templates or examples I could follow?

thanks for the advise.
-jim

• Re: multiple file projects Bulent Murtezaoglu
• Re: multiple file projects Marco Antoniotti
• Re: multiple file projects Thomas A. Russ

From: Bulent Murtezaoglu
Subject: Re: multiple file projects
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:14:15 +0000
Message-ID: <871xgicku0.fsf@p4.internal>

>>>>> "JN" == Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com> writes:

    JN> ...  Does there need to be some main
    JN> file that explicitly loads all the other files in the correct
    JN> order?  What about templates or examples I could follow?

There are various defsystems that do what I think you want (and more,
they also have 'make' functionality).  If you are using a commercial
lisp, it most likely has one (I know for sure Allegro and Lispworks
do).  There's also mk:defsystem and asdf that are both open source and
cross-platform.

I'd start with your vendor docs if you are really comitted to a single 
commercial system.  If not, go with the popular open source ones:

http://www.cliki.net/mk-defsystem
http://www.cliki.net/ASDF%20System

cheers,

BM

From: Marco Antoniotti
Subject: Re: multiple file projects
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:10:10 +0000
Message-ID: <5aC7d.2$u5.207@typhoon.nyu.edu>

You can use either MK:DEFSYSTEM or ASDF.  If you look at common-lisp.net 
or clocc.sf.net you will see how these are used.

In alternative you could set up a file with all the load and compile 
instructions of the case.  You may have a look at *LOAD-PATHANME* and 
*LOAD-TRUENAME* in the spec in this case.

Cheers
--
Marco




Jim Newton wrote:
> does anyone have any advice about how to manage a lisp program
> which contains multiple files.  as i understand there is no standard
> loading mechanism.  Does there need to be some main file that
> explicitly loads all the other files in the correct order?
> What about templates or examples I could follow?
> 
> thanks for the advise.
> -jim
> 

From: Thomas A. Russ
Subject: Re: multiple file projects
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:59:23 +0000
Message-ID: <ymiwty6a2zo.fsf@sevak.isi.edu>

Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com> writes:

> 
> does anyone have any advice about how to manage a lisp program
> which contains multiple files.  as i understand there is no standard
> loading mechanism.  Does there need to be some main file that
> explicitly loads all the other files in the correct order?
> What about templates or examples I could follow?

The generally use mechanisms are either one of the variants of DEFSYSTEM
or ASDF.  These are used to manage "systems" which consist of multiple
files.




-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute