[asdf-devel] :logical-hostname

[james anderson]

On 2010-03-30, at 20:36 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

>
> I think I know roughly what Juanjo means here.  In particular:
>
> 1.  I don't like to have my systems use the ASDF API internally.   
> E.g.,
> I will set up variables with pathnames, or use logical pathnames in my
> ASDF system definition files, so that my actual code doesn't have  
> to use
> something like asdf:system-definition-pathname.
>
> 2.  I have worked with people who don't use ASDF.  If I observe
> strictures like the ones I lay out in point 1, then those people can
> write a simple load file that somehow initializes the logical  
> pathnames
> and loads the code (how to do that is /their/ problem!) and then they
> can use my code just as I do.  If I used calls like
> asdf:system-definition-pathname, that would not be possible.
>
> So I think Juanjo's objectives here (or at least my interpretation of
> his objectives!) are reasonable.
>
> You got it right. I would extend the argument but I have to leave.  
> Perhaps tomorrow.

?
one can do that now. without any changes to asdf and without any  
purity tests.
so, he must be thinking of something in addition.