[asdf-devel] Pushed version 3.1.0.52 -- first version with checks for OPERATION subclasses -- please test!

[Faré]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> If you have any systems that define their own subclasses of OPERATION,
> *please* pull this update and test.
>
> This new version checks to see if OPERATION classes have been updated to
> adapt to Fare's refactoring of the OPERATION class hierarchy.
>
> In a nutshell, Fare has added MIXIN subclasses of OPERATION that control
> the propagation of dependencies.  These new subclasses are
>
> DOWNWARD-OPERATION
> UPWARD-OPERATION
> SIDEWAY-OPERATION and
> SELFWARD-OPERATION
>
> To these, I have added NON-PROPAGATING-OPERATION.
>
> New subclasses of OPERATION will be checked to see if they inherit from
> one of the above classes, and if they do not, ASDF will signal an error.
>
> Fixes for this error should look something like this:
>
> (defclass my-operation (OPERATION)
>   ...)
>
> should turn into something like
>
> (defclass my-operation (#-asdf3 OPERATION #+asdf3 DOWNWARD-OPERATION)
>   ...)
>
> with DOWNWARD-OPERATION being replaced by whatever is/are the
> appropriate dependency (non-)propagating class(es).
>
> I hope to add a page or two to the Texinfo documentation to provide more
> information before the final release.
>
I'm worried about this patch. Can you get it tested with cl-test-grid
before release? I fear there are many currently working systems that
will break due to this change.

Anton, can you help?

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