[Ecls-list] Something about ASDF...

[CRLF0710]

ok... i've already modified my local version, anyway...

2012/6/14 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
> juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM, CRLF0710 <crlf0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But for the second question i've still got no idea how to deal with
>>> that... It seems that cl-utilities library did a hack to asdf, and used
>>> another .asd file as a "SOURCE". This doesn't work on ecl... Any idea how
>>> to fix it? (I've temporarily removed that part and it worked fine).
>>
>>
>> This cannot be fixed. This is an abuse of ASDF and ECL has no way to
>> learn which ASDF files it has to compile in -- which it should not, for
>> ASDF should just be plain declarations of intentions, not code (see
>> http://tream.dreamhosters.com/tream/musings/49-lisp/76-analysis-of-existing-asdf-files
>> )
>
>
> Well, actually my sentence is a bit too dramatic: it can be fixed... by
> changing the library and telling its maintainer to commit the change, which
> should probably be trivial: split out the code that is in ASDF  into a
> separate file and list it as a dependency!
>
> Juanjo
>
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CrLF.0710
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