[asdf-devel] ASDF2 cache control?

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
writes:

> On 4/4/10 Apr 4 -9:50 PM, Faré wrote:
>>> I would in order prefer the following:
>>>
>>> 1.  disable output-translations by default.
>>>
>> I think we can't do that, because of things like system-installed source code
>> and users who use both clisp and ecl (that share the .fas suffix) or
>> i386 and x86-64 SBCL (that share the .fasl suffix), etc.
>> 
>> If a novice wants to know where the fasls are, I prefer to give the explanation
>> once than to give plenty of explanations with as many special rules.
>
> Ah.  I see.  Then is there a "disable output translations for MY files,
> and do the right thing with system installed code"?
>
> I agree with you about people who use clisp and ecl, multiple SBCLs, ACL
> + SBCL, but I'm not convinced that those people are common enough that
> we should arrange the world around them.  I am, after all, one of these
> people and I am a user of ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS.
>
> However, there are a lot of people out there who use only a single CL.
> Indeed, I work with them, both in my company and out.

Even if they work only with one implementation, why do you think they
want their source directories be cluttered with fasls which just plays
bad with RCS, grep, tar, and other tools?

  -T.