[asdf-devel] Upgrade to ASDF 2 with ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS

[Faré]

On 11 April 2010 16:23, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> If one was to start up a lisp with asdf and asdf-binary-locations
> loaded, and then installed asdf2?
>
> Is this expected to run at all well?
>
It should "just work": the hook ABL uses is a defmethod on output-files,
and output-files is amongst the methods declared as redefined
(either fmakunbound or uninterned) by the ASDF magic package redefiner.
Thus any previously defined ABL should be invalidated by loading ASDF 2.

> Would it be reasonable to trap this case and either refuse to run, or
> somehow undo asdf-binary-locations?
>
> I'd like to be able to do some more ASDF2 testing, but if ASDF2 can't be
> installed over ASDF 1 + A-B-L, that makes it more difficult...
>
Please try it and report any bug.

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