[asdf-devel] Re: Loading an .asd file directly using its pathname

[rpgoldman at sift.info]

I didn't understand this. So are we likely to encounter problems with old systems making their own packages that use only ASDF and CL?

Presumably not, unless symbols moved from ASDF to POIU, but thought I would check.

"Faré" <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I'm not sure what can go wrong if one CL:LOADs an .asd file, but if
>> things can go wrong, a warning seems sensible, maybe even an error.
>>
>Well, first, it might be loaded from the wrong package.
>ASDF 1&2 loads from a temporary package that uses CL and ASDF.
>ASDF 3 loads from ASDF-USER, that uses CL, ASDF, and most of POIU
>(not all of it, for backward-compatibility reasons, until SBCL has
>stopped using SB-EXT in SB-GROVEL at the same time as).
>
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