To have a scalable system to build large software in Common Lisp, featuring deterministic separate compilation and enforced locally-declared dependencies.
XCVB is published by ITA Software (now a part of Google) under an MIT-style license, as part of the QITAB umbrella project.
You can find the latest released tarball of XCVB and all its dependencies ready-to-build in our release directory: http://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/releases/
Status: Not yet a complete solution to fully replace ASDF, but it's already working and useful if you're ready to confront its current limitations. I'm working on it. Examples included.
You can checkout our public repository with: git clone http://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/git/xcvb.git (or if you're a project member with git clone ssh://USER@common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/public_html/git/xcvb.git )
Or you can browse the git web interface at http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/xcvb/xcvb.git or http://github.com/fare/xcvb/tree/master