[asdf-devel] Ordering of system :depends-on elements

[Zach Beane]

Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> writes:

>> So can you make suggestions about how to be quicklisp-compatible while
>> making it possible to have multiple findable system definitions in a
>> single file?
>
> Hmm, I think it might be workable if, when a system with a given slashed
> name is not found, the *system-definition-search-functions* chain was
> called recursively with the truncated name, instead of having each
> function in *s-d-s-f* have to know how to truncate on its own.
>
> E.g. imagine I had something like this:
>
>   (push (lambda (name) (print (list 'trace name)) nil)
>         *system-definition-search-functions*)
>
> Then it would be nice if the ASDF internals led to putput like this:
>
>   (find-system "foo/bar")
>
>   (TRACE "foo/bar")
>   (TRACE "foo")
>
>   => #<SYSTEM "foo/bar"> 
>
> Does it work that way now? I don't think it does.

Actually, another option could be to ONLY call the *s-d-s-f* chain on
the truncated name. That would preclude those functions from
implementing some new funky logic for slashed names, but I don't think
that's really much of an issue.

Zach