> Sorry if there was some confusion. There are no plans to bundle > asdf-encodings in with asdf in the next release of the SCL. The > bundled version of asdf is expected to be the same as the normal > release, except for any minor SCL specific fixes. > Oh, OK. Good. My apologies for not getting it. Your plan looks good.
> The next release of the SCL integrates comprehensive support for > reading a text file character encoding from an Emacs style coding > attribute. The support was contributed to public domain CMUCL if > you wish to examine it. This allows 'load and 'compiler, and the > debugger, and many editors, to also use the correct encoding. > The new external-format has been named :file-attribute. It has > not been decided if this will be the :default, but a separate default > will be provided for lisp source files. I am open to working with > other vendors on standardising the support, but there has been > little interest. > I believe I saw an earlier version of it. Is it in the current version of CMUCL from CVS? asdf::default-encoding-external-format could use :file-attribute instead of :default on SCL. > I would not suggest bundling asdf-encodings in with ASDF, but > suggest CL implementations integrate the support so that it > works with 'load and 'compile' and editors. > That sounds like an interesting plan. > Code was contributed earlier in the year > to insert the file attribute and/or transcode all of the quicklisp > source distributions so there are lots of options for users and > library authors. > Is that the code we saw on that list? Did you get any feedback since then? IIRC, there were ~7 problematic systems that needed to be updated for UTF-8. > Perhaps the asdf-encodings could be made an implementation > specific support library that is only loaded for CL implementations > without integrated support. > That's a can of worm I'm trying to move away from. Some time next month, we should go over quicklisp again and see if we can resolve those ~7 remaining systems, and maybe change the defaults for ASDF. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The greatest productive force is human selfishness. — Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love" _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
