ASDF/DEFSYSTEM in automatically generated .asd files

[avodonosov]

Hello.

When someone generates .asd file programatically,
and uses some new version of ASDF, the DEFSYSTEM
symbol is printed as ASDF/DEFSYSTEM:DEFSYSTEM
instead of just ASDF:DEFSYSTEM.

This is because in the newer versions ASDF
package is an umbrella package reexporting
symbols from subcomponent packages like
ASDF/DEFSYSTEM.

The .asd files generated that way do not work
on older versions of ASDF (shipped with CCL 1.8,
sbcl-1.1, ecl-12.12.1 and other lisps).

Quicklisp automatically generates .asd files
for several projects distributed as a single .lisp file.
For example string-case, macroexpand-dammit, memoize.

In result such single-file projects which were updated in
Quicklisp 2013-10-03 are broken on old lisps:
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-test-grid/ql/quicklisp-2013-10-03-diff2.html

[quicklisp]

Thanks. Pascal Costanza also noticed this and I will fix it and make a new release.

[quicklisp]

de79404 fixes this problem, and the new release will have updated system files with compatible symbols in them.

[vigneshsarma]

This doesn't seem available yet?
Does this take some time?

CL-USER> (ql:update-all-dists)
1 dist to check.
You already have the latest version of "quicklisp": 2013-10-03.
NIL
CL-USER> (ql:update-client)
Installed version 2012112500 is as new as upstream version 2012112500. No update.
T

[quicklisp]

It will not be available until the next dist update, which I will
announce on blog.quicklisp.org. I hope to make the update available in
the next few days.

Zach