[asdf-devel] Re: Tiny patch for cmucl print-herald

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Fare" == Far  <Far> writes:

    Fare> Oh, I used uiop:dump-image, which apparently always uses :executable t.
    Fare> Maybe it's a mistake, but that's what released in 3.0.2.
    >> 
    >> Can't say if that is a mistake or not, but that certainly explains it.
    >> I actually would prefer, though, that :executable were not the
    >> default, for exactly the issue you ran in to
    >> 
    Fare> In this case, either dump-image should accept separate :executable and
    Fare> :standalone arguments, and/or use :executable executable on CMUCL, and
    Fare> :init-function restore-image
    Fare> only when standalone. Backward compatibility is a bitch, whereby
    Fare> :executable should default to T where practical, and :standalone
    Fare> default to executable where executable-p. Ugh. I hate backward

As it stands now, it seems that with cmucl only executable images can
be created.  That seems not right.

I'm willing to break backward compatibility for asdf and cmucl,
in this one case. :-)  I doubt many people use executable images; I
rarely do and when I do it's mostly for testing.

Ray