[asdf-devel] question for API

[Robert Goldman]

On 3/24/10 Mar 24 -1:36 PM, Faré wrote:
> You mean, things like
> (asdf:system-relative-pathname :xcvb "") or
> (asdf:system-relative-pathname :xcvb "master.lisp") ?
> 
> Should be working well since 1.649.
> 
> It's even documented. The example with "" should be given, though.

Great.  I will have a look.  Thanks!

> 
> PS: are you keeping that lock on asdf.texinfo?

I have moved the file and pushed the results.

If you are going to modify it, please try cd to doc and

make asdf.info
make asdf.html
make asdf.pdf

and LMK if anything untoward happens.

Cheers,
r

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> On 24 March 2010 14:28, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>> One thing I find myself doing over and over (and I don't think I'm alone
>> in this) in .asd files is to capture a pathname for the directory of the
>> system definition file.  This is particularly important when one has
>> code that wants to load data files, in the presence of FASL file
>> relocation (since it means that source code files can't effectively use
>> *load-truename*).
>>
>> Bits of code like this seem like a good candidate for being added to the
>> ASDF API.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> R
>>