Where should a Quicklisp QUICKLOAD go in my source? Nowhere?

Question

Let\'s say I build an application on top of net.aserve and bordeaux-threads. My package declaration might look like this:

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Answer 1

I had exactly the same question and I agree I should not force a package manager on a user. Before quicklisp's time I was using clbuild and it puts all .asd files into a systems/ directory. As long as the `systems/' directory is in asdf:central-registry, one can simply (require "a-package"), at least in SBCL and CCL, to load all relevant packages. The new clbuild2 retains this feature if you do install-from-upstream, and its integrated quicklisp does respect the separately installed-from-upstream packages, but quicklisp installed packages don't expose their .asd files anymore.

So my solution is to write a shell script that scans all quicklisp installed packages, usually under dists/quicklisp/software/, and link all .asd files there to a central place. In this way one doesn't need to load quicklisp into the cl image if one only wants to use quicklisp installed packages. I hope quicklisp could ship this feature by default.