[asdf-devel] :logical-hostname

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:

>
> Question:  should we raise a style warning if the user supplies a
> logical pathname that does not comply with the ANSI spec?  I would
> prefer that we do that.
>

The first question is whether we are going to provide a logical hostname or
whether instead we will allow the user to provide a full logical pathname
translation. That is

:logical-host "CL-PPCRE"

versus

:logical-path "CL-PPCRE:MY-DESIRED;SET;OF;VIRTUAL;DIRECTORIES;*.*.*"

The latter is trickier and proner to break. If we use the former we can
provide two sets of translations

CL-PPCRE:FASL;*.*.* -> whatever binary directory
CL-PPCRE:**;*.*.* -> source directory

So I would stay with that.


> Question:  are we going to create a logical pathname translation for
> just the system sources?  Or should we create also something like
>
> CL-PPCRE;FASLS;*.*.*
>
> in addition?  This seems a little tricky, since it requires that we hook
> into the output name rewriting logic, but probably is The Right Thing.
>

I agree, but again this can be done in a two-step process. First convince
people that the logical hostname works and only then move to providing
binary translations -- if that is ever needed, which might not be the case.

Juanjo

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