[asdf-devel] Testing with RMCL....

[Pascal Costanza]

On 18 Apr 2012, at 15:39, Robert Goldman wrote:

> On 4/18/12 Apr 18 -12:10 AM, Pascal Costanza wrote:
>> On 17 Apr 2012, at 21:36, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am willing to run the ASDF tests using RMCL, since my Mac still has
>>> Snow Leopard, instead of Lion.
>>> 
>>> *However*, as a non-RMCL user, I have no idea how to run it from the
>>> shell, so that we can run the test suite on RMCL.
>>> 
>>> Can someone please offer me a clue?
>> 
>> You can't run RMCL from a shell...
> 
> Hm.  Well then I cannot run the tests there.  Maybe someone who is
> dedicated to seeing RMCL + ASDF continue to work would be so kind as to
> provide a technique for running the tests.  This may be quite tricky,
> since the tests require restarting lisp in pristine state.
> 
> Question: is it possible to control RMCL using applescript?  I suppose
> that could be used to perform the functions for which we are currently
> using shell scripts.  An ongoing rewrite effort to get the tests to work
> is likely to be quite laborious.
> 
> Given that we cannot test on RMCL, and it's EOLed by the release of
> Lion, I am inclined to say we should end official ASDF support for RMCL.
> Incorporating patches to keep ASDF working on RMCL seems fine, but I
> don't believe that we can continue to fix problems on that platform
> ourselves.
> 
>> 
>>> I can't be trying to run this from the GUI every time it needs a test.
>>> I had to give up testing LispWorks for the same reason.
>> 
>> ...but you can run LispWorks from a shell.
> 
> Actually, you can run LispWorks from a shell, but only if you can dump
> an image, which is a privilege limited to those who have a full (paid)
> license.
> 
> I don't have such a license, so I cannot run the LispWorks tests.
> 
> It would be nice if someone from the community (someone working for
> LispWorks, perhaps) would take the responsibility of verifying that ASDF
> releases run on LW.  I don't believe Faré can do this, either.


Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state?

For my projects, I always have both shell scripts and "pure" lisp versions. That also helps with testing in the LispWorks IDE...


Pascal

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