[armedbear-devel] asdf-jar on Windows

[Anton Vodonosov]

22.01.2012, 13:09, "Anton Vodonosov" <avodonosov at yandex.ru>:
>
> It would be good also to have a solution when fasls are loaded from
> jar directly. It would require to present jar as a file system to lisp, so that
> lisp functions merge-pathnames, open and others work on like
> #P"jar://some/path/".
>
> It will solve the with choosing right temporary directory and will
> allow to load lisp code in environments where we don't have
> writable file system at all - Google App Engine.
>
> Of course, I realize it is probably a significant work of source to support this,
> so it's just an idea rather than a "feature request".
>

BTW, if think in this direction, it makes sense to investigate firs what
new java versions offer in regard to pluggable file systems:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/zipfilesystemprovider.html