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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:

> 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?

Well of course: you will have to quote the path or escape the stars.
But substituting the star with another character is even less tasty.


Allow "*" for all the subdirectories (not recursive) too.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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