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

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 10:18 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
> On 4/22/12 Apr 22 -9:55 AM, Faré wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:54, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
> >> Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state?
> >>
> > Mostly historical reasons. Its test suite predates most test-suite software.
> > No one has rewritten it to use anything else.
> > I would gladly accept a patch that replaces that with, say, fiveam or stefil.
> > Proper use of clear-system and delete-package can help.
> 
> I suppose it could be rewritten to do that.  I have never thought it was
> worth the trouble, since running the tests would damage the state of any
> lisp process in which it was run (because of changing the internal state
> of ASDF), but such a rewrite would make ASDF testable on LW personal and
> RMCL, which would be a worthwhile objective.
> 
> Sadly, FiveAM seems to have been abandoned and is in need of a new
> maintainer.  None of the bese projects darcs repos has been modified in
> almost 2 years....

Somebody complained about that on bordeaux-threads-devel, so I picked it
up: http://fenlix.dreamwidth.org/2255.html

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib

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