Richard M Kreuter writes: > "Tobias C. Rittweiler" writes: > > > I think it's bitten pretty much all of us that we at least once tried to > > push a non-directory-designating filename to *CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. > > > > It's a common pitfalls for newcomers. > > > > Couldn't ASDF signal a warning when it encounters such a thing while > > grovelling through the registry? > > Wouldn't it be more user-friendly to coerce such pathnames to ones that > denote directory names?
Yes, I think so. When I wrote my original posting, I was not sure whether such a suggestion would be dismissed as unwished DWIM behaviour, so I chose the more conservative suggestion. I am not familiar with the intrinsics of the pathname system, so a silly question about a possibly problematic case: Let's say "/foo/bar" were a symlink pointing to a directory. Would coercing that namestring to denote a directory correctly resolve the symlink? -T. _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel