[cffi-devel] uffi.asd vs uffi-compat.asd

[Cunningham, Jeffrey K.]

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From: cffi-devel-bounces at common-lisp.net [mailto:cffi-devel-bounces at common-lisp.net] On Behalf Of Luís Oliveira
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 4:11 PM
To: Jeff Cunningham
Cc: cffi-devel at common-lisp.net
Subject: Re: [cffi-devel] uffi.asd vs uffi-compat.asd

> As Daniel Herring hinted, one way you can solve this problem is to
> setup asdf:*central-registry* such that UFFI's uffi.asd takes
> precedence over the clbuild/systems/uffi.asd one. Would that work for
> you?

You are right - it would solve the problem. But it leaves library compatibility in that awful state that requires too much arcane information to be known to write decent auto-setup tools. But don't you think that in the long run Lisp libraries ought to work together without all kinds of special exceptions? Its one of the things people always complain about with Lisp. Just my two cents.

--Jeff