[babel-devel] patches :)

[Luís Oliveira]

[Cc-ing Stelian in case he's not subscribed to babel-devel.]

On 23/02/2008, Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> wrote:
>  i know i'm running ahead of things, but you can find a few
> patches available at:

No, you're just walking by the main developer who is standing still. :-)


>  darcs pull http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-dwim/darcs/babel/

I have a few questions:

Sat Feb 23 22:01:55 WET 2008  attila.lendvai at gmail.com
  * fix: lookup-mapping of already looked up concrete-encoding instances

I'm curious about your use case for (lookup-mapping ht
<some-mapping-instead-of-an-encoding>). I would we want that to work?


Sat Feb 23 22:06:59 WET 2008  attila.lendvai at gmail.com
  * Added declaims to make it possible to locally inline string-to-octets
and friends upon explicit request

Somewhere in your code (cl-rdbms maybe?) I saw you used the mappings
directly. Is this related to that? What's the gain? (In either case:
funcalling the mappings directly or inlining string-to-octets.)


Sat Feb 23 22:48:45 WET 2008  attila.lendvai at gmail.com
  * Added an exported lookup-string-vector-mapping for special uses
of the encoders directly

This one is related to the previous question, I suppose. I'm curious
about why you want to call the encoders directly. ISTR having some
ideas about more features for string-to-octets and friends, so I might
imagine some uses for calling the encoders directly if I could
remember what those ideas were.


>  hint: you may consider adding Stelian and me to the babel group, so
>  that the open source fairies could set up an official babel repo... ;)
>  or even a minimalistic site if you don't find that offending.

I've sent a request to add you both to the group. Also, I moved my
babel tree into the project's public_html. I usually screw the
permitions up, so let me know if anything's wrong.

I set up a minimalistic site. Feel free to improve it.

-- 
Luís Oliveira
http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/