[asdf-devel] Pre ML post review

[Nikodemus Siivola]

Some questions and notes:

How do I instrospect *SOURCE-REGISTRY*? The outlined API only puts
stuff there, but doesn't tell me how to read it.

I would like to be able to mutate *SOURCE-REGISTRY* (even if by
cloning without actual destructive operations) at runtime to isolate
things.

Under which circumstances one is expected to use which of the
configuration methods: are libraries that are composed of multiple
systems allowed/expected to ship with configuration files? In
particular, the purpose of the environment variable seems unclear to
me.

Being able to specify individual files seems important to me.

COMMON-LISP-CONFIGURATION: Who will maintain this? What other things
belong in there?

Having -SOURCE-REGISTRY-CONFIGURATION as a suffix in all the names
seems excessive. Maybe just -SOURCE-REGISTRY?

I'm not sure I see the point of having both INITIALIZE- and ENSURE-,
especially given CLEAR-.

PROCESS-SOURCE-REGISTRY-CONFIGURATION seems like a bad name, since it
doesn't do that. PROCESS-FOR-SOURCE-REGISTRY maybe?

Caching: you mean caching by ASDF, not by the config system?

I think I might have a better overall idea of what you intend if you
described this configuration system separately from the ways ASDF
would use it -- in particular since it seems to me several things
might want to use this to manage their own external resources.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus