[armedbear-devel] #P serialization across Windows/non-Windows (was Re: r12666 breaks ASDF compilation on Linux)

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Mark Evenson <evenson.not.org at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [Ticket #100 filed to track this issue][1].
>>
>> [1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/100
>
> Thanks for officially tracking the problem. I think that "fixing" it
> only for asdf is simple: just emit (parse-namestring "...") instead of
> #P"...". That would allow to re-release 0.20 quickly. I can send a
> patch tonight for that.
>
> Eliminating the problem in the general case is harder and we'd better
> discuss the possible solutions. Here's my take at it:
>
> 1) don't fix it. State clearly that literal pathnames in source are
> OS-dependent.
>
> 2) keep, for each pathname constructed via #P or parse-namestring, the
> string passed by the user, until the pathname is destructively
> modified. When dumping it, use that string if available, else warn and
> use a calculated string.
>
> 3) dump-object for pathnames outputs a MAKE-PATHNAME form that
> reconstructs the pathname component by component.

I would definitely prefer (3), but that doesn't fix the general
problem: what about objects which have pathnames as part of the
serialization done by their MAKE-LOAD-FORM? [Or would dump-form also
fix that?]


Bye,

Erik.