Bundle operations

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

Dear François-René,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Daniel, dear Jean-Claude,
>
> when asdf-ecl was initially written, its load-fasl-op was intended
> as the default way to load a system. Because of implementation bugs
> revealed as ASDF improved its testing, this feature was disabled at
> some point while developing ASDF 3.1. Now that these implementation
> bugs seem to have been solved, for both ECL and MKCL, the question is:
> do you guys want me to make load-bundle-op (as it is now named)
> the default *load-system-operation* on ECL and/or MKCL?
>

I have been away from ASDF related concerns long enough for me
to be unable to form a precise understanding of what such move would
precisely mean right now, sorry.  But I will try to push out the door
MKCL 1.1.10, the latest maintenance release of the MKCL 1.1.X line,
before the end of this month. And as part of that operation I want
to upgrade the bundled ASDF to 3.1.5.  So I'll have then a great
opportunity to get reacquainted with all those load-XXX-op questions,
and I should be able to have an informed opinion by then.


>
> And if so, what test shall I use or not use in determining whether
> the implementation is recent enough to use this feature without bug?
> I suppose it's better to check against a recent version of ECL that I can
> test
> against this feature than over an older version that may or may not work.
>
>
Are we talking about something like #'cl:lisp-implementation-version and
related facilities? If so then you could be interested in:

#'si:mkcl-major-version
#'si:mkcl-minor-version
#'si:mkcl-patch-level

that are available since MKCL 1.1.0. They are meant to make this
kind of assertion return T:

(typep (read-from-string (si:mkcl-minor-version)) 'integer)

Cheers,

JCB
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