[asdf-devel] :logical-hostname

[james anderson]

good evening;

On 2010-03-30, at 12:00 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> Some considerations:
>
> [...]
>
> * Including logical pathnames in defsystem instead of just the name  
> of the host is going to be problematic. I know at least one  
> implementation (SBCL) that complains when we try to build a logical  
> pathname with a host name that has no logical translations. It is  
> the fish eating its own tail: we can not define the logical  
> pathname in defsystem and thus we can not define the translation  
> and thus...

please explain further. the passage is not clear. no implementation  
should permit to "build a logical pathname with a host name that has  
no logical translations." you must intend some other use case.

there are already mechanisms which are known to work portably with  
asdf without requiring it to change:
- a pathname argument which is a logical pathname
- unifying the pathname which asdf derives from the load pathname  
with known logical hosts


>
> * We do not need to fix logical pathnames. We just have to offer  
> them as a portable solution for system distribution. Developers  
> will have to care about the way they name their files and learning  
> how logical pathnames work.
>
> Juanjo
>
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