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Common Lisp ASDF Preview.

At a glance
Purpose A Common Lisp ASDF system definition: the defsystem forms that name a system, its dependencies and its source components.
Extensions .asd
Poka parser poka-asd
Viewer poka-tree-viewer
Depth tier Parser with a shared viewer (see Depth tiers)
Breadth tier B2 Broad (see Breadth tiers)

How much Poka reads

B2 Broad. The common content of the current and the common older versions is decoded. Some named features or versions are not, and are listed.

Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-asd/src/main.rs (699 lines, a tolerant S-expression tokeniser and parser) and plugin.json. No unit tests or tests/samples.rs; the corpus has cl-ppcre.asd but no test reads it. Covers .asd. Every defsystem form (also asdf:defsystem, at any depth) becomes a tree node with version, author, licence, description, homepage and maintainer, the :depends-on list (including :version and :feature wrappers) and the :components tree of modules, files and static files.

What Poka does not read

  • Other defsystem options are not shown: :serial, :pathname, :in-order-to, :perform, :defsystem-depends-on, :class, :long-description, :bug-tracker, :source-control and the like
  • Per-component :depends-on and component options are not shown
  • Reader conditionals (#+ and #-) are not evaluated, so feature-dependent entries are shown as plain symbols
  • Computed values such as (:read-file-form "version.sexp") are shown as the form's head, not read
  • Other top-level forms in the file (defpackage, defmethod) are ignored
  • Files over 16 MiB are cut without a flag; caps of 100 dependencies and 300 components per system, 6 module levels and 3,000 nodes

Libraries

Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.

  • ASDF (candidate; MIT; Common Lisp; https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/) — The standard build facility that reads .asd files; page states an MIT-style licence. Not a standalone parser library.

Sources

  • parsers/poka-asd/src/main.rs
  • parsers/poka-asd/plugin.json