[Cl-store-devel] Patch for more comprehensive handling of packages

[Sean Ross]

Thomas Stenhaug <thomas at src.no> writes:

> I make and manipulate packages at runtime, so I needed to serialize
> and deserialize their state.  That's what the patch is for.
> 
> cl-store is great stuff, btw. :)
> 
> 
> Thomas

Hi,

 Thanks for the patch.
 
 I've applied it to cvs with a few modifications. The gist of the 
 patch is the same but I've changed external-symbols and internal-symbols
 to return a vector since lispworks can choke when restoring large lists,
 internal-symbols is also a little more choosy and will ignore internal
 symbols which came from packages on it's use list. I also added 
 package-shadowing-symbols to the stored values.

 The last change was a variable which determines whether to store
 the packages on the use list as full packages or as a package-name.
 
 BTW, I was reading through old cmucl archives and came across a post
 from Erik Enge which said that you were writing cl-pile which has 
 'transactions and several other neat features' so I was wondering 
 if you have any ideas for new features for cl-store. 

- Sean

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