[asdf-devel] Merged Fare's RUN-PROGRAM topic branch

[Faré]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> I have merged Fare's RUN-PROGRAM topic branch and pushed it as 3.0.2.11.
>  Passes all the tests for Fare and me on Linux and for me on Mac (modulo
> known bugs in bundle-op).
>
Thanks a lot! I deleted the topic branch from the git repo (it was at
c8487c61a760a5dc2844e02312920e795b2f0ba7 which is part of master, so
no information was lost).

I've also rebased the package-system branch on the git repo (so,
delete it before you pull it again, or rebase it). I don't expect you
to merge it before the 3.0.3 release, but it would be nice to have it
merged right afterwards: it's additive stuff, no one should notice.

> My intention is to release this as 3.0.3 in the next few days, but I
> would like to make it available for people to play with first.
>
> I'm of course happy for you all to run the test suite on your own
> machines and implementations (contact me if you need help setting this
> up), but even more, I'd be obliged if you were to test this on your own
> systems (again, ask for advice if you need help setting up to do this).
>  I'd particularly urge you to try this on systems where you have made
> your own extensions (new component or operation classes), or where you
> reach out into the environment to do something else (e.g., run "make" or
> the C compiler for FFI).  Those would be the most likely to expose bugs
> in the new facilities.
>
It would be especially nice for anyone calling an outside compiler
to use uiop:run-program instead of reinventing the wheel.
e.g. cffi-grovel, iolib-grovel, etc.

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