clisp support [Re: Pushed ASDF 3.1.7.8: fixes for CLISP, etc.]

[Faré]

Sorry, I was using the latest CLISP from hg, and hadn't noticed that
things were failing for older versions.

On the version of CLISP from Ubuntu 16.04, that claims it has version
"2.49 (2010-07-07) (built on toyol.buildd [127.0.1.1])" the tests pass
up until the same point as ABCL.
On the version of CLISP from hg it passes all tests.
(Before 3.1.7.8, CLISP would fail even earlier in the test file)

Can you tell me where the tests fail for you?
make t l=clisp t=test-logical-pathname.script

Yes, we should disable the tests where they fail. At least, until a
new CLISP is released and we can rely on its version number to enable
or disable tests.

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
> On 9/1/16 Sep 1 -2:16 PM, Daniel Kochmański wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> fwiw, to get a version you get a first token from
>> (lisp-implementation-version):
>>
>> [2]> (lisp-implementation-version)
>> "2.49+ (2010-07-17) (built 3664370621) (memory 3664370857)"
>
> Thanks!
>
> For some reason, I missed that in (apropos '#:version) but I see that now.
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>> Robert Goldman writes:
>>
>>> On 9/1/16 Sep 1 -9:17 AM, Elias Pipping wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 28 Aug 2016, at 02:28, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sam Steingold (sds) probed me on some old bugs, which led me to waste
>>>>> a day debugging issues on and with CLISP.
>>>>>
>>>>> First I reproduced CLISP bug 677, figured out what CLISP was doing
>>>>> wrong (incorrect merging of logical pathnames in compile-file), and
>>>>> implemented a workaround (physicalize everything I can, trust
>>>>> compile-file's return value over my :output-file argument):
>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/bugs/677/
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, I found a cleaner fix to the issue with DIRECTORY wanting "*"
>>>>> rather than "*.*" as the match-all pattern on CLISP and GCL.
>>>>
>>>> Dear Faré,
>>>>
>>>> with 3.1.7.7, clisp-2.49 and clisp-git(*) passed test-logical-pathname.script for me.
>>>> With 3.1.7.8, clisp-git continues to pass test-logical-pathname.script for me, but clisp-2.49 now fails.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell, that’s because previously part of the test was disabled for clisp and is now unconditionally enabled.
>>>>
>>>> I just want to make sure that this was intentional and known. I don’t know if functionality probed in the relevant part of the tests is crucial in order for ASDF to function but this might mean that clisp 2.49 can no longer be supported. If so, I would drop it from the list of platforms I’m testing with.
>>>
>>> Even worse, AFAICT clisp does not make its version number available to
>>> the lisp context.
>>>
>>> There's a SYSTEM::VERSION, but:
>>>
>>> [2]> (system::version)
>>> (20080430)
>>>
>>> which doesn't say "2.49" to me :-(
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what to do about this, since clisp seems to have lost the
>>> ability to make releases.  I'm reluctant to start building clisp from
>>> source -- on three different platforms yet -- just to test it.
>>> Especially if this isn't relevant to what clisp users are actually getting.
>>>
>>> If you're in touch with Sam, Faré, maybe you could encourage him to make
>>> a release.
>>>
>>> Indeed, I'm prepared to threaten to back out fixes that work on clisp
>>> from source, and break release clisp.  Or at least re-disable the clisp
>>> tests.
>>>
>>> I don't think it should be the ASDF maintainer's job to track every lisp
>>> implementation from source.
>>
>>
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