[asdf-devel] never ending component relative pathnames [2]

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear James,
>
>> i have reformulated the test cases and run them through several
>> implementations.[0]
>>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> 1. i had thought (eg. [1]) that abcl and asdf were compatible. is
>> there some special version involved? the cl.net release failed to
>> load.[2]
>>
> Oh my, the asdf:around fiasco again. ABCL apparently uses an old
> version of ASDF to avoid a lot DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION.
>
> Couldn't we instead just have a do-perform function do the wrapping
> stuff and call perform gf, and skip that method-combination
> complication?
>
> Is there a good reason to use this method-combination protocol? Does
> anyone rely on either defining asdf:around methods or on calling
> perform directly and having it do the restart magic?

A lot of people use the Stale Fasl recipe at

  http://www.cliki.net/asdf

which was the reason that prompted introducing the custom
method combination.

Long form of D-M-C is in the works for ABCL from what I know.

  -T.