On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:47 -0500, Faré wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Stelian Ionescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:12 -0500, Faré wrote: > >> I think the whole "temporary package" thing is a failure, and we > > > > What problems does it actually cause ? > > > It causes having to maintain this weird system, > having functions and classes the symbols of which become inaccessible, etc. > It causes users having the wrong expectations and/or having to learn > some magic semantics that do not apply to other cases.
Why inaccessible ? [...] > Successes: > * User-extensible methods specialized on the dual operation and > component class hierarchy. Big big win. > * moving pathname management out of individual system files into asdf > itself. Big big win. > * Using TRUENAME to simplify .asd management with a link farm. Big win > at the time, though ultimately not scalable. I still use this and love it. Actually, I'd like to be able to be allowed to return to the old behavior where ASDF re-initializes the source registry on every find-system. Given that I only use quicklisp and a symlink directory on an SSD, that's preferable(I don't use the :directory scanning thing). -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib
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