[asdf-devel] summary proposal for COMMON_LISP_PATH and system search changes

[Robert Goldman]

james anderson wrote:
> On 2009-09-29, at 16:09 , Robert Goldman wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> Possible happy compromise:  allow a convention like
>>
>> /path/to/recursive/directory//:/another/path
>>
>> to specify when you want recursion in the variable?
>>
>> That works for the shell variable, which is a string; not sure how to
>> mark the corresponding CL pathname object.
> 
> how about "**". as in,
> 
>   /path/to/recursive/directory/**/:/another/path/
> 

WFM.  Is there any chance that this choice would cause awkwardness with
the shell's parsing?

r