[asdf-devel] More backward compatibility needed

[Faré]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Bill Robinson <wivlaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I haven't touched it for a while. Is this causing a problem? For what
> projects? The actual cl-glfw-opengl system is probably a lot less used than
> cl-glfw.
>
Oh, that appeared while blindly loading software from Quicklisp.

> As I recall I think it's because there are two packages that can provide
> those named functions, the ARB extensions for older version of OpenGL and
> the core equivalents for later versions. Including those packages assumes
> you will have loaded one or other of the specific versions. Basically, it
> depends on another package.
>
I see.

I suppose a clean approach would be to define a base package
with appropriate interfaces, either through special variables and hook variables
or an explicit interface object (possibly using interface-passing style);
at worst, stub functions to be overridden in another system.

Then, your system would not have hidden dependencies on one of two
other systems.

> I could go back and have a look, but it might not be for some weeks before I
> get time to do it. Sorry.
>
If it's working as designed, then the issue is not urgent, but you
might consider it a worthwhile cleanup.

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