Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread Faré
>>>: fare >>: james anderson > >>> And even then you'll have a hard time fixing things that users >>> can now trivially do with the following translation: >>> >>> (:root ("C:/my/cl/cache" :implementation)) >>> >>> This will work and make his file in >>>   \\remote-host\myshare\cl\cl-foo\foo-V2.000\

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread james anderson
On 2010-04-21, at 04:00 , Faré wrote: > [...] > > >> the additions >> to the code base over the past few months were devoted to two areas: >> >> - configuration >> - output translations >> >> i neglect, for the moment, the configuration component of the asdf >> evolution and concentrate on questi

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread james anderson
On 2010-04-21, at 12:12 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, james anderson wrote: further experiments demonstrated that - with changes to the scripts to account for functions which would be removed, all regression tests pass, and that with appropriate initializ

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, james anderson wrote: > further experiments demonstrated that - with changes to the scripts > to account for functions which would be removed, all regression tests > pass, and that with appropriate initialization, a multi-runtime build > is supported for the norma

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread james anderson
On 2010-04-21, at 10:56 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:31 AM, james anderson wrote: the patch which was enclosed in the earlier message[2] demonstrated an implementation which modifies the three functions - component- pathname, input-files, and output-files, exte

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:31 AM, james anderson wrote: > the patch which was enclosed in the earlier message[2] demonstrated > an implementation which modifies the three functions - component- > pathname, input-files, and output-files, extends the function which > constructs the component absolut

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-21 Thread james anderson
On 2010-04-21, at 04:00 , Faré wrote: > Dear James, > >> before one can declare asdf 2.0 to be feature complete, one should >> have a specification of its intended function and then gauge the >> implementation in those terms. >> > I humbly disagree. The standards that I have set to myself for ASD

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-20 Thread Faré
Dear James, > before one can declare asdf 2.0 to be feature complete, one should > have a specification of its intended function and then gauge the > implementation in those terms. > I humbly disagree. The standards that I have set to myself for ASDF 2.0 are as follows: 1- improve the ASDF inte

[asdf-devel] ASDF 2.0 requirements : simplify the output locations mechanism

2010-04-20 Thread james anderson
On 2010-04-18, at 00:20 , Faré wrote: > Dear all, > > I think time has come to declare ASDF 2.0 in beta-test, and focus on > releasing it before we get more features into it. > > If there are any bug fixes or improvements you think should definitely > be in 2.0, please open a bug in launchpad and