how to distinguish public vs private (entry-point vs internal) systems

Jim Newton jnewton at lrde.epita.fr
Wed Feb 6 15:45:24 UTC 2019


> 
> I’m both asking how they should be named, and how to advertise them for programmatic consumption.
> For example, and automatic testing program such as that included in quicklisp, should not try to stand-alone
> load systems which are not designed to work stand-alone. We have to work around this by artificially
> making all systems “work” in standalone enough to fool quicklisp.
> 
> Can you explain the quicklisp constraint? How does it find all systems?
> 
> One simple expedient for this quicklisp issue -- if I understand it correctly -- would be to have a test-op default perform method for all systems that simply succeeds. It should probably by default issue a warning that no "real" test method exists, and that warning should have a particular type so that it can be muffled by quicklisp. Probably also we should allow the programmer of the original system to make a test-op no-op method that emits no warning (because the system is intended not to be testable).
> 


As I understand quicklisp, it ties to compile each system in a top-level sbcl, and asserts that that works.  
As far as I know that is the only test it does.  I don’t believe it does anything special with test-op.




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