[asdf-devel] What are current plans for RMCL?

[Pascal Costanza]

On 11 Apr 2012, at 17:59, Faré wrote:

> (Misclicked and the message was sent before it was finished. Grrr.)
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:02, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
>> I'd like to get an idea what the current plans for RMCL are, if any. Since the switch to OS X 10.7, there is no default support for old PowerPC applications on OS X anymore, so RMCL doesn't work anymore, at least not without a major effort. Are there any plans to find a remedy for this situation? Or will RMCL effectively become deprecated?
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> As usual, I will accept patches. I will not be able to test RMCL anymore.
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>> I'm asking for the following reasons: When ASDF was changed from 1.x to 2.x, this caused some problems for RMCL, which I eventually resolved by using Common Lisp's logical pathnames for the systems I maintain (primarily Closer to MOP and ContextL). However, the current maintainers of ASDF have an unjustified very low regard for logical pathnames, which causes a lot of pain - basically, whenever a new version of a Common Lisp implementation comes bundled with a new ASDF version, I have to deal with bugs in ASDF that in one way or the other break my setup with logical pathnames.
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> The problems were fixed as soon as a suitable bug report was provided
> (i.e. not by you).

I have submitted bug reports, and provided descriptions of my setup (I think, actually, more than once). Have you entered them in the test suite for ASDF? (Do you have a test suite for ASDF?) I find it hard to believe they don't show up on your side if you continue testing that setup. (The bugs occur in SBCL, Clozure and LispWorks, for example…)


Pascal

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