[asdf-devel] Cache? Translations? How to get rid of them?

[Faré]

Dear Juanjo,

> Indeed. This or any other way that does not break current ASDF. What I would
> like is seamless integration without imposing something that is prone to
> break in the future. Another possibility would be for OUTPUT-FILES to return
> two values: the list and an optional second value saying "do not translate!"
> This second value will be ignored by existing functions but it may be used
> by apply-output-translations It also has the advantage that the main output
> value remains in the same format and we do not introduce a corner case that
> might break ASDF's logic.
>
Your API sounds great. What about this?

(defmethod output-files :around ((op operation) (c component))
  "Translate output files, unless asked not to"
  (multiple-value-bind (files fixedp) (call-next-method)
    (if fixedp
        files
        (mapcar #'apply-output-translations files))))

If you're OK with it, I'll push it as ASDF 1.635.

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