[Sbcl-devel] ASDF 2.29 released

[Faré <fa...@gm...>]

Dear SBCL developers,

ASDF 2.27 was a major rewrite of ASDF, and everything since then
should be considered as candidate releases for ASDF 3:
        http://lists.common-lisp.net/pipermail/asdf-announce/2013-February/000014.html

ASDF 2.28 was released shortly after 2.27, without an announcement,
to fix an issue found by Stelian Ionescu using TEST-OP on some systems.

ASDF 2.29 is a stability release, with which I'm once again
inviting implementers to update the ASDF they distribute.

Please update SBCL to use ASDF 2.29.
As a bonus, it will become trivial to patch SBCL so contribs are built with ASDF
but do not require ASDF to be loaded at runtime.

Since ASDF 2.27, ASDF 2.29 further brings:

  * deferred-warnings support for Allegro, CMUCL, SCL;
    fixes to the CCL support.

  * Upgrade fixes regarding fallback system versions;
    making it possible (via massive use of eval-when)
    to compile ASDF without loading it first.

  * Compatibility with private use of :D package nickname
    by not claiming it for package ASDF/DRIVER anymore.
    Also explicitly handle NIL in safe-file-write-date,
    in case the implementation doesn't issue a file-error in that case;
    make UTF-8 the default encoding for with-input-file.
    Be portable to #+(and sbcl (not sb-eval)).

  * Bugfixes to old bugs: inline-methods can now be unqualified (lp#485393),
    defsystem-depends-on accepts arbitrary specs, not just names (lp#1027521).

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