[asdf-devel] :ASDF-DEPENDENCIES implemented

Faré fahree at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 13:26:42 UTC 2010


I think defsystem-depends-on fits the current interface better indeed.
If no one complains today, I'll commit that as 1.705.
(Not that I like the current interface, but it's not mine to design.)

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On 20 April 2010 04:10, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I pushed Juanjo's patch for :ASDF-DEPENDENCIES as 1.704, except that I
>> renamed the feature :SYSTEM-DEPENDENCIES. Maybe it should have been
>> :SYSTEM-DEPENDS-ON. Ahem. You tell me what you think.
>
> There is obviously a naming problem.
>
> :system-dependencies looks like the dependencies are equivalent to
> :depends-on
> :asdf-dependencies is ugly and does not give much information
>
> I could suggest,
>
> :meta-dependencies which is ugly, but may ring a bell (AMOP)
> :defsystem-depends-on which is more like a sentence (current spirit)
>
> Juanjo
>
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