[asdf-devel] ASDF features under discussion

[james anderson]

On 2009-09-23, at 08:59 , james anderson wrote:

>
> On 2009-09-23, at 08:12 , Daniel Herring wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> My view is that, if an implementation provides a supported hook to
>> augment
>> REQUIRE, then ASDF should take advantage of that hook.  Otherwise,
>> ASDF's
>> users are left passing these around on the black market.
>>
>> People who really don't want that behavior could (push
>> :disable-asdf-require-hook *features*) before loading ASDF...
>
> could this please at least be duplicated to a variable which has the
> equivalent effect on the function's actions.

r.goldman observed, that my concern may not be self-evident.

one would expect the reader conditionalization to be limited to the  
vendor-specific hooks, while the operator's generic behavior is left  
to execution-time controls.

>

the execution-time control is necessary if the user is to effect the  
function's behavior in those cases where the vendor has supplied a  
compiled version of the asdf package.

>
>>
>> - Daniel
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