[asdf-devel] asdf 1.600

[Robert Goldman]

On 2/4/10 Feb 4 -9:55 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com
> <mailto:fahree at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I still would recommend 1.601 as it is an "official" release (whatever
>     that means) whereas 1.596 isn't.
> 
> 
> Thanks. That is all I was asking for.
>  
> 
>     Note that ECL passes tests, if only I tell the test suite to not worry
>     about the warnings ECL issues while compiling asdf.lisp. It is
>     probably a bug in ECL that it should issue these warnings: plenty of
>     unused variable warnings for variables used while dispatching methods,
>     warnings about an unused variables CLOS::.GENERIC-FUNCTION.SI::TEMP as
>     introduced by ECL itself in some macro. Also annoying notes about
>     .COMBINED-METHOD-ARGS. was undefined. Compiler assumes it is a global.
>     Unknown type (VALUES &REST T)
>     And one about ECL expecting two arguments from unintern.
>     The problem with ignoring warnings from ECL is that, though I ignore
>     bogus warnings now, I may be ignoring valid warnings tomorrow.
> 
> 
> I was aware of some of those warnings (.combined-method-args.,
> *next-method*), as reported by other users and now fixed in the upcoming
> release, but not of others (temp?). In this case you should have
> immediately reported that problem so that I look at it, which I will do
> before the next release.

FWIW, I was having this problem with SBCL, too, and one of my recent
patches is to make the test suite ignore style-warnings when compiling
asdf.lisp (which used to cause the test suite to crash).

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