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2.1.2 What asdf Is Not

‘ASDF’ will not download missing software components for you. For that, you want ‘Quicklisp’, that builds upon ‘ASDF’, and is great for pulling and installing tarballs of packages you may depend upon.

We also recommend clbuild, that now builds upon ‘Quicklisp’, as a great tool for pulling from version control packages you need to modify or want to contribute to.

We recommend you should not use asdf-install anymore, as it is an older similar piece of software that is both unmaintained and obsolete.

‘ASDF’ is also not a tool to build or run Common Lisp software from the Unix command-line. For that, you want:

• cl-launch,
• buildapp, or
• roswell