clisp 2.49: asdf cannot find asd

Question

My setup is: Windows Vista clisp 2.49

I run clisp and load asdf without any problems. I push a directory pathname into asdf:*central-registry* and copy a shortcut of cl-ppcre.asd into the directory. Then I try to load-op it with (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op 'cl-ppcre) and i get a response that "component 'cl-ppcre' not found". Any suggestions? Asdf is version 2.010.

Answer 1

Found the solution:

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/041113.html

In a few words, the problem is that ASDF doesn't like Windows' shortcuts, it wants soft links and the two are not the same. The link describes 2-3 ways of dealing with this.

Answer 2

ASDF is meant to support shortcuts. If the support is buggy, please contribute a fix.

That said, with ASDF2, the recommended way of configuring ASDF is to put your code in one of the standard locations, and/or to add entries to the source-registry.