[asdf-install-devel] Bugs? install-package, defsystem

Gary King gwking at metabang.com
Mon Nov 19 04:17:03 UTC 2007


Hi Dan,


On Nov 18, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Dan Muller wrote:

> In any case, that change got me a bit farther. Specifically, it got me
> as far as ASDF-INSTALL::LOAD-PACKAGE, which blows up on the call to
> MK:LOAD-SYSTEM. CL-BASE64 has no .system file, you see. As far as I
> can tell, the logic when both ASDF and DEFSYSTEM are present is kind
> of half-baked; ASDF-INSTALL tries to load each package using both
> systems, via LOAD-PACKAGE. Am I missing something here?


No, you're not missing anything. ASDF's support of mk:defsystem is  
definitely lagging.

I'm inclined to drop support for mk:defsystem for now. What's your  
opinion? (Others should please chime in)
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