On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Stelian Ionescu <[email protected]> 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 ? > Because the package was delete-package'd in an unwind-protect form after loading the .asd file, and its symbols are thereafter uninterned.
>> * 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). > I respect the *central-registry* feature and will keep supporting it. It's great for advanced developers like you. Don't want no caching? Keep using the *central-registry*, it's not going away any time soon. However, the caching is a big win for those of us who use :tree, especially on implementations on which scanning is slow. And that means most end-users and newbies, who want things to just work with minimal configuration (i.e. none at all if possible). —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
