[asdf-devel] :in-order-to

[Faré]

Interestingly, I wanted to get rid of it and/or refactor how this
thing is done, particularly so to make ASDF and POIU play nicer with
each other. Sigh.

Note that I'm currently refactoring TRAVERSE. Because it was taking 2
minutes to process the qres-sbcl-xne.asd generated by XCVB, what with
O(n^3) algorithms and worse. Will release 1.700 when it's done.

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On 15 April 2010 16:40, james anderson <james.anderson at setf.de> wrote:
>
> On 2010-04-15, at 22:26 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>
>> Who uses it?
>
> depends on what one means by "uses it"? the value in the respective
> slot is more-or-less central to the dependency computation and is
> initialized in the instantiation process[1]. once it plays that role,
> is there any reason to not place the initarg in the interface?
>
>>
>> Out of 291 packages, the only uses seem to be
>> - Defining TEST-OP operations (greate majority)
>> - In a few tests, it solves a wrong ordering of files
>> - In two, it deactivates operations by using FEATURE (obscure way
>> to do it)
>>
>> The "paradigmatic" example of McClim cited here
>>   http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html#Common-attributes-
>> of-components
>> does not have a single occurrence of this word.
>>
>> The question is thus, is it really needed?
>
> [1] : http://tinyurl.com/y37qr69
>
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