> The clean thing to do would be to use named-readtables and/or
> cl-syntax, and have each file evaluate (in-readtable :foo) or have a
> perform :around method or around-compile hook that does it for you.
[...]
> Without ASDF, there's no way the libraries will be safe by default.
well, there is,
Dear Anton,
can you do a cl-test-grid test with the code in the standard-syntax
branch from git://common-lisp.net/projects/asdf/asdf.git
(commit 2c1107) ?
That branch has my "each system gets its own syntax" thing, based on a
general-purpose "each system has a set of private variables" protocol.
>>: Faré
>: Robert
> Well, but consider this hypothetical person who doesn't know what's
> going to happen and who isn't familiar with ASDF already.
>
> S/he types (asdf:make "foo") and *either* gets foo loaded into his/her
> lisp image or an executable file gets dropped onto his/her disk?
>
W
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Jean-Claude Beaudoin
wrote:
>
> Here is, as previously mentioned, the git format-patch with the
> modifications needed to port current ASDF head to MKCL 1.1.8 and later. This
> has been tested on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and MKCL 1.1.8 where it passes all 51
> tests of t
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> Here is an example of a kind of system that will be broken by this
> proposed change:
>
> * We have a distributed system that is lisp-based.
>
> * There is a small set of ASDF systems that constitutes the common base
> of the modules of t
Faré wrote:
>> In that case, maybe instead of trying to take a real English word that
>> > already has a meaning, we should take a short phrase that means exactly
>> > what we will do:
>> >
>> > DO-DEFAULT-OPERATION-ON-SYSTEM
>> > to be shortened to
>> > DDO
>> >
>> > [I don't like DoS or DDoS for
Here is an example of a kind of system that will be broken by this
proposed change:
* We have a distributed system that is lisp-based.
* There is a small set of ASDF systems that constitutes the common base
of the modules of this distributed system.
* For each module, there is an ASDF system, wh
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Zach Beane wrote:
> Faré writes:
>
>>> Should ASDF fail the libraries which modify global readtable - I doubt it's
>>> ASDF role.
>>>
>> Yes it is, see my paper:
>> http://fare.tunes.org/files/tmp/asdf/asdf3-2014.html#%28part._.Safety_before_.Ubiquity%29
>
> So y
Faré writes:
>> Should ASDF fail the libraries which modify global readtable - I doubt it's
>> ASDF role.
>>
> Yes it is, see my paper:
> http://fare.tunes.org/files/tmp/asdf/asdf3-2014.html#%28part._.Safety_before_.Ubiquity%29
So you want to make a change rapidly to suit the deadlines of a
con
