Thursday 8 January 2009

A Mudballs Update

Yes, I know it's late but better late than never right.

Anyway, I have just uploaded the 'Christmas Cheer' release of mudballs which, unfortunately, will require a fresh install of mudballs for existing users as there was a rather egregious oversight regarding the updating of systems.


Noteworthy Features
  • A publicly editable wiki has now been made available at http://redmine.mudballs.com/wiki/mudballs/   New pages can be created by opening the appropriate URL. For example, http://redmine.mudballs.com/wiki/mudballs/hunchentoot will  show an option for creating a new page. 
  • The start of a mudballs FAQ can be found on it's wiki page: http://redmine.mudballs.com/wiki/mudballs/FAQ.
  • down-casing of pathnames has been fixed. Down-casing will now only happen for components named with symbols.
  • New versions of all systems, including core systems such as :cl-ppcre, can now be updated without having to reinstall mudballs.
  • (mb:install :cl-ppcre :file "/path/to/file") now works.
  • The output path of component is now calculated correctly (including honoring the :fasl-output-root preference).
  • Uninstalled systems are no longer considered  for an operation if there is an installed version of the system present unless explicitly requested using the :version keyword.
  • The fasl-path of system definition files is no longer the same as components of a system as this was conflicting with the output of compiling components.
  • And other small fixes


As always mudballs is available for download from the releases directory and instructions can be found here.

Please let me know if any server on mudballs.com is not responding as my hosting provider is being a little flaky of late.

Thanks to the following people for reports and ideas.

- Magnus Malm
- Luke Renn
- Leigh Smith