[armedbear-devel] translate-logical-pathname and :wild-inferiorsregression

[Alan Ruttenberg]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/10 7:32 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>>
>> 2010/2/3 Mark Evenson<evenson at panix.com>:
>>>
>>> On 2/3/10 6:38 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>>> […]
>>>>
>>>> First off, is the example I gave in this thread.
>>>> (TRANSLATE-PATHNAME #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;" #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;**;*.*"
>>>>
>>>> #P"/Users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/**/*.*")
>>>>
>>>> This succeeds in SBCL and throws an error (regressing) in ABCL. So
>>>> that part is an issue no matter what.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't get that, I see the following:
>>>
>>> dada:~/work/abcl$ sbcl
>>> This is SBCL 1.0.33, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
>>> More information about SBCL is available at<http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>>>
>>> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
>>> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
>>> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
>>> distribution for more information.
>>> * (setf (logical-pathname-translations "ido") '(("IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;**;*.*"
>>> "/Users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/immunology/**/*.*")))
>>
>> This part is unnecessary. The call to translate-pathname below doesn't use
>> it.
>
> Now I'm real confused, because without telling the Lisp that "IDO:" is a
> logical hostname prefix I get:
>
> dada:~/work/abcl$ sbcl
> This is SBCL 1.0.33, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (TRANSLATE-PATHNAME #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;" #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;**;*.*"
> #P"/Users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/**/*.*")
>
> #P"/Users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;"
>
> Which is definitely not what you want, right?  Or do you have this
> translations defined in initialization files (i.e. "~/.sbclrc")?

Erg. That was wrong - meant to edit it out. Sorry.

>
> With the IDO logical pathname host defined with the SETF on
> LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS, I thought you wanted this behavior:
>
> (translate-pathname #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;" #P"IDO:IMMUNOLOGY;**;*.*"
>
> #P"/Users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/**/*.*")
> #P"/users/alanr/repos/infectious-disease-ontology/trunk/src/ontology/immunology/"
>
> which is what I observe pre-r12283 ABCL doing.

pre-r12283 ABCL was buggy in a different way. My best understanding is
that the behavior observed in sbcl and my patched abcl is correct.

-Alan