On 18 Apr 2012, at 15:39, Robert Goldman wrote: > On 4/18/12 Apr 18 -12:10 AM, Pascal Costanza wrote: >> On 17 Apr 2012, at 21:36, Robert Goldman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am willing to run the ASDF tests using RMCL, since my Mac still has >>> Snow Leopard, instead of Lion. >>> >>> *However*, as a non-RMCL user, I have no idea how to run it from the >>> shell, so that we can run the test suite on RMCL. >>> >>> Can someone please offer me a clue? >> >> You can't run RMCL from a shell... > > Hm. Well then I cannot run the tests there. Maybe someone who is > dedicated to seeing RMCL + ASDF continue to work would be so kind as to > provide a technique for running the tests. This may be quite tricky, > since the tests require restarting lisp in pristine state. > > Question: is it possible to control RMCL using applescript? I suppose > that could be used to perform the functions for which we are currently > using shell scripts. An ongoing rewrite effort to get the tests to work > is likely to be quite laborious. > > Given that we cannot test on RMCL, and it's EOLed by the release of > Lion, I am inclined to say we should end official ASDF support for RMCL. > Incorporating patches to keep ASDF working on RMCL seems fine, but I > don't believe that we can continue to fix problems on that platform > ourselves. > >> >>> I can't be trying to run this from the GUI every time it needs a test. >>> I had to give up testing LispWorks for the same reason. >> >> ...but you can run LispWorks from a shell. > > Actually, you can run LispWorks from a shell, but only if you can dump > an image, which is a privilege limited to those who have a full (paid) > license. > > I don't have such a license, so I cannot run the LispWorks tests. > > It would be nice if someone from the community (someone working for > LispWorks, perhaps) would take the responsibility of verifying that ASDF > releases run on LW. I don't believe Faré can do this, either.
Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state? For my projects, I always have both shell scripts and "pure" lisp versions. That also helps with testing in the LispWorks IDE... Pascal -- Pascal Costanza _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
