On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 23:11 -0500, Faré wrote: > >> Because the package was delete-package'd in an unwind-protect form > >> after loading the .asd file, and its symbols are thereafter > >> uninterned. > > > > Then keep it, store it somewhere and perhaps delete it only when no > > longer referenced. > > > I have no way to know when the package is not referenced.
Keep a list of all temporary packages created and keep a mapping system->temporary-package. After each find-system, run a garbage collection. > ASDF currently assumes nothing useful will be done with it > after the asd is done loading. That's just wrong. > I say stop trying to shield users from the responsibility of > namespace management by making things more complex. > They already need to create private packages for private uses, anyway, > and they already can create all the clashes they want, anyway. I think ASDF should be as DWIM-ish as possible, which benefits everybody; or, in other words, better avoid responsibility and concentrate it into a central place(ASDF). Unnecessary responsibility just causes headaches. > >> 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). > > > > That's fine, but I'd like to be able to disable caching. And I'm not > > using *central-registry* but this configuration: > > > > (:source-registry > > (:directory (:home "lisp/systems")) > > :inherit-configuration) > > > Maybe what you want is this: > > (defmethod asdf:operate :before (o c &key &allow-other-keys) > (declare (ignorable o c)) > (unless asdf::*system-being-operated* > (asdf:initialize-source-registry))) Thanks, I'll try it. -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib
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