[asdf-devel] notes on the manual discussion of asdf-output-locations

[Faré]

On 12 March 2010 10:47, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> 1. The manual in several places uses version 1.6 as synonymous with
> 1.600.  But if we are to eat our own dogfood and comply with our own
> version-satisfies function,
>
> 1.6 ~= (1 6) while
> 1.600 ~= (1 600)
>
> and 600 > 6
>
> I have fixed the references I found.
>
Thanks. I fixed more of them, and made other updates.

> 2.  In a couple of places the manual suggests making files with names of
> the form nn-filename.  We should explain what is the purpose of these
> integers.
>
It's for sorting, so you control the order in which configuration is read.

> 3.  I don't want to repeatedly have to translate stuff out of read me
> files.  I have put all of the information from the
> README.asdf-output-locations file into the manual, and killed the README
> so that it doesn't become an attractive nuisance.
>
OK.

Remains the other README.source-registry to merge likewise.

Sigh.

Getting there.

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