Is anyone actually using the deferred warnings code?

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Wed May 30 22:50:57 UTC 2018


On 30 May 2018, at 17:28, Stelian Ionescu wrote:

> I used to use it, then it broke months ago on my local setup so I just
> disabled it.

Two questions:

1. I'm curious about why you used it.  Anything you could share would be 
helpful.

2. Was the breakage due to the change in the compiler internals? If so, 
the merge request I just sent off should fix it (and I hope to have a 
new release with it integrated soon).

Best,
r

>
>>
>> AFAICT, it is disabled by default, and it is not documented in the
>> ASDF manual.> So is this code even live, except for in the test 
>> scripts?
>
>
>> It was pretty painful to get this to work because it relies on
>> unexported (and hence unstable) SBCL internals.> My *guess* is that 
>> this was originally done as a way to dispense with
>> WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT and hence potentially parallelize the
>> compilations.> If no one is even using it, I am tempted to move it to 
>> be a contrib
>> and drop it from the tests and maintenance as part of core ASDF.
>> Maybe it would be better as a part of a POIU extension to ASDF, and
>> relieve me of dealing with these SBCL compiler internals?> Cheers,
>>  r
>
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> --
> Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.


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