Deferred warnings broken on SBCL 1.4.7
Robert Goldman
rpgoldman at sift.info
Wed May 30 20:12:11 UTC 2018
Whoops. Looks like this doesn't work on older SBCLs. I'll fix that
now.
R
On 30 May 2018, at 15:08, Robert Goldman wrote:
> I have just pushed a merge request and topic branch for this.
>
> See https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/merge_requests/95
>
> I'm pretty scared about this -- we are getting in there and rooting
> around in SBCL internals in ways that seem almost guaranteed to break
> again later. But for now, I think it's fixed.
>
> Comments welcome -- especially comments involving a nicer rewrite of
> what I wrote.
>
> Best,
> R
>
> On 30 May 2018, at 12:13, Faré wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:53 PM Eric Timmons <etimmons at mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Somewhat related, I was curious why ASDF doesn't use Gitlab CI to
>>> automatically run tests. It probably wouldn't have helped in this
>>> particular case since the root cause was a change outside ASDF, but
>>> it's still nice for things like merge requests.
>>
>> Well, there's about ten different scriptable implementations on three
>> major
>> platforms, plus multiple versions of each compiler and maybe extra
>> architectures to test for some of them. And then there are the
>> software
>> licensing issues for those operating systems and the proprietary
>> implementations. Finally, a complete test set would probably include
>> non-regression with cl-test-grid.
>>
>> Testing ASDF is a major undertaking. And even when all tests pass on
>> all
>> platforms, we have bad surprises, as demonstrated by the bumpy
>> releases 3.2
>> and 3.3.
>>
>> That said, even one image running tests on one implementation without
>> cl-test-grid would be an obvious improvement over the current
>> situation.
>>
>> Not being the maintainer anymore, nor paid to do it anymore, not
>> using it
>> for work or for fun anymore, I'd say "patches welcome".
>>
>> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau
>> •Reflection&Cybernethics•
>> http://fare.tunes.org
>> The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too;
>> and this
>> lie creeps from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." —
>> Nietzsche
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