[alexandria-devel] Proposed addition of temporary file creation utilities

[Faré]

> I like the portable getenv implementation - Not having that available
> is why my proposal uses a logical pathname so that one can define the
> temporary directory easily from the outside.
>
Both asdf and xcvb-driver export getenv.

> Then again, I'm not sure that Alexandria should include loads of
> implementation specific switches.  It might then be better to combine
> a cross-implementation getenv and the temporary file handling stuff
> into a trivial-temporary-file library and let Quicklisp do the rest.
>
If you're unwilling to handle non-trivial system dependencies in alexandria,
then maybe alexandria is not the place for this particular piece of code.
Osicat, iolib (why do we need two such libraries?) might be better suited,
or you could use xcvb-driver that exports this piece of functionality.

OT: Zach, I made many related changes in asdf, fare-utils, xcvb, recently,
and pushed working combinations yesterday. I also still haven't implemented
self-upgrade of xcvb, which is required in case the cached xcvb executable is
older than your xcvb driver needs. But at least, it will error out loudly now.

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