Bibliography

• Francois-Rene Rideau: “ASDF 3, or Why Lisp is Now an Acceptable Scripting Language”, 2014. This article describes the innovations in ASDF 3 and 3.1, as well as historical information on previous versions. https://github.com/fare/asdf3-2013
• Alastair Bridgewater: “Quick-build” (private communication), 2012. quick-build is a simple and robust one file, one package build system, similar to faslpath, in 182 lines of code (117 of which are not blank, not comments, not docstrings). Unhappily, it remains unpublished and its IP status is unclear as of April 2014. asdf/package-system is mostly compatible with it, modulo a different setup for toplevel hierarchies.
• Zach Beane: “Quicklisp”, 2011. The Quicklisp blog and Xach's livejournal contain information on Quicklisp. http://blog.quicklisp.org/ http://xach.livejournal.com/
• Francois-Rene Rideau and Robert Goldman: “Evolving ASDF: More Cooperation, Less Coordination”, 2010. This article describes the main issues solved by ASDF 2. https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/doc/ilc2010draft.pdf https://gitlab.common-lisp.org/asdf/ilc2010
• Francois-Rene Rideau and Spencer Brody: “XCVB: an eXtensible Component Verifier and Builder for Common Lisp”, 2009. This article describes XCVB, a proposed competitor for ASDF; many of its ideas have been incorporated into ASDF 2 and 3, though many other ideas still haven't. https://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/
• Peter von Etter: “faslpath”, 2009. faslpath is similar to the latter quick-build and our yet latter asdf/package-system extension, except that it uses dot . rather than slash / as a separator. https://code.google.com/p/faslpath/
• Drew McDermott: “A Framework for Maintaining the Coherence of a Running Lisp,” International Lisp Conference, 2005, available in pre-print form at http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/lisp05.pdf
• Dan Barlow: “ASDF Manual”, 2004. Older versions of this document from the days of ASDF 1; they include ideas laid down by Dan Barlow, and comparisons with older defsystems (mk-defsystem) and defsystem (defsystem-4, kmp's Memo 801).
• Marco Antoniotti and Peter Van Eynde: “DEFSYSTEM: A make for Common Lisp, A Thoughtful Re-Implementation of an Old Idea”, 2002. The defsystem-4 proposal available in the CLOCC repository.
• Mark Kantrovitz: “Defsystem: A Portable Make Facility for Common Lisp”, 1990. The classic mk-defsystem, later variants of which are available in the CLOCC repository as defsystem-3.x.
• Richard Elliot Robbins: “BUILD: A Tool for Maintaining Consistency in Modular Systems”, MIT AI TR 874, 1985. ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AITR-874.pdf
• Kent M. Pitman (kmp): “The Description of Large Systems”, MIT AI Memo 801, 1984. Available in updated-for-CL form on the web at http://nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Large-Systems.html
• Dan Weinreb and David Moon: “Lisp Machine Manual”, MIT, 1981. The famous CHINE NUAL describes one of the earliest variants of DEFSYSTEM. https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/cadr/chinual_4thEd_Jul81.pdf