[armedbear-devel] Patch for ASDF2 to use arbitrary output translation function

[Mark Evenson]

Right: I'll make sure that such an ability exists when we finally  
include ASDF2 in ABCL.


Tersely written from my iPod


On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Alan Ruttenberg  
<alanruttenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, haven't had a chance to look closely at asdf2, but wanted to
> point out that in certain contexts, like running applets, writing to
> any file system is prohibited. For those cases, it would be nice if it
> was super-easy to set a flag that says: if there isn't a compiled
> version, or if it is stale, don't try to compile - just load source.
>
> -Alan
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com>  
> wrote:
>> On 3/25/10 2:39 PM, Mark Evenson wrote:
>> […]
>>
>>> I'm working on an implementation of this on your git version as a
>>> proof of concept, but haven't gotten much further than getting your
>>> output configuration to accept the new syntax.  I assume that
>>> actually applying the function will be easy, but I am not sure.
>>
>> […]
>>
>> Attached please find a patch to implement the use of an arbitrary  
>> output
>> translation function in ASDF2.
>>
>> An example of the use would be the directive
>>
>>   (#p"jar:file:/**/*.jar!/**/*.*" :function translate-jar-pathname)
>>
>> which will call the function TRANSLATE-JAR-PATHNAME on a match of  
>> the first
>> element of the list.  The function will be invoked with two  
>> arguments, the
>> first being the matching wildcard, and the second being the  
>> pathname to be
>> translated.  The function returns the translation.
>>
>> Hopefully, after review and critique, we can can get something like  
>> this in
>> ASDF2.
>>
>> With the attached patch to abcl trunk, I can successfully use ASDF2  
>> to load
>> ASDF systems in jar files, with the compiled files being output to a
>> translation under :USER-CACHE.
>>
>>
>> --
>> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before, but there
>> is nothing to compare to it now."
>>
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