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

[Robert Goldman]

Attila Lendvai wrote:
>> Is it a contingent fact about this system that we have an absolute pathname
>> here, o have we somehow ended up with a function named
>> foo-relative-pathname that returns absolute pathnames?
> 
> 
> as far as i read it, 'relative' here refers to 'system' in the
> meaning: give me a pathname that is relative to this system.
> 

So when the argument is the system itself, we get the absolute pathname,
and for the components we get back a relative pathname.  I suppose
that's reasonable.

best,
r