On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 10:18 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote: > On 4/22/12 Apr 22 -9:55 AM, Faré wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:54, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state? > >> > > Mostly historical reasons. Its test suite predates most test-suite software. > > No one has rewritten it to use anything else. > > I would gladly accept a patch that replaces that with, say, fiveam or > > stefil. > > Proper use of clear-system and delete-package can help. > > I suppose it could be rewritten to do that. I have never thought it was > worth the trouble, since running the tests would damage the state of any > lisp process in which it was run (because of changing the internal state > of ASDF), but such a rewrite would make ASDF testable on LW personal and > RMCL, which would be a worthwhile objective. > > Sadly, FiveAM seems to have been abandoned and is in need of a new > maintainer. None of the bese projects darcs repos has been modified in > almost 2 years....
Somebody complained about that on bordeaux-threads-devel, so I picked it up: http://fenlix.dreamwidth.org/2255.html -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib
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