[asdf-devel] how to query root of a system

[Robert P. Goldman]

If you have a suggestion about where this information should live in the 
manual, I will try to submit a patch.
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Robert P. Goldman
Principal  Scientist, SIFT, LLC
www.sift.info

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:50 +0100 "Tamas Papp" <tkpapp at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Suppose I have a library named MYLIBRARY which was installed in the
>directory /somewhere/foo/ (eg by ASDF-Install, clbuild or manually by
>the user).  It has a /somewhere/foo/mylibrary.asd definition file,
>which was duly symlinked to mylibrary.asd in ASDF's central registry.
>The user can load it the usual way using ASDF.
>
>Is it possible to query the root directory somehow using the name?  Eg
>I am looking for
>
>(query-system-root :mypackage)   ; evaluates to #P"/somewhere/foo/"
>
>I could not find how to do this in the manual.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tamas
>
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