[asdf-install-devel] Re: [PATCH] asdf-install: set external-format for openmcl

[Gary King]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for this patch. I'll get it included in the common-lisp ASDF- 
Install distribution as soon as I can (hopefully within the next week).

Regards,

On Nov 5, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Michael Weber wrote:

> [I read cclan-list via GMANE.  If this mail doesn't make it to the  
> list, feel free to  forward it.]
>
> Hi,
>
> cclan's asdf-install bombs in openmcl (1.1-pre-070722 DarwinX8664)  
> when the default character encodings are changed: it mangles data  
> when downloading or when writing to files, respectively.
>
> Patch attached.
>
> (@Gary Byers:
> With openmcl's bundled asdf-install I get a different error, but  
> presumably for the same reasons, as this seems to be an older version.
>
> Any chance openmcl's version could be updated?  I am all in favor  
> of reducing the number of asdf-install versions in the wild.  Also,  
> (require :asdf-install) did not work out of the box for me, which  
> is the reason I downloaded cclan's asdf-install in the first place.)
>
> Here's the error I get with cclan's version:
>
> [5184]% openmcl64;;; ASDF-Install version 0.6.10
> Welcome to OpenMCL Version 1.1-pre-070722 (DarwinX8664)!
> ? *default-file-character-encoding*
> :UTF-8
> ? *default-socket-character-encoding*
> :UTF-8
> ? (asdf-install:install :trivial-utf-8)
> ;;; ASDF-INSTALL: Downloading 5920 bytes from http://common- 
> lisp.net/project/trivial-utf-8/trivial-utf-8.tgz to /Users/michaelw/ 
> asdf-install-0.asdf-install-tmp ...
> > Error: value NIL is not of the expected type CHARACTER.
> > While executing: CCL::%IOBLOCK-ENCODED-CHARACTER-READ-VECTOR, in  
> process listener(1).
> > Type :POP to abort, :R for a list of available restarts.
> > Type :? for other options.
> 1 > (quit)
>
>
> <asdf-install-openmcl-encoding.patch>

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