<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Zach Beane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xach@xach.com">xach@xach.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>ASDF2's enabled-by-default output translations break the practice of<br>
loading file resources relative to *load-truename* or<br>
*compile-file-truename*, and the recommended new method is to find files<br>
via ASDF:SYSTEM-RELATIVE-PATHNAME. Will that cause a problem in ECL?<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><br>It is quite obvious that if libraries depend on external files they will cause a problem when used in <b>standalone programs and libraries</b>.<br><br>It is quite unfortunate that ASDF does not provide a declarative interface to list the files that belong to a library and a set of functions to locate them afterwards -- we could change such an interface to work in standalone programs --. There is an old discussion in the ASDF mailing list where I put forward this idea and was bashed down to exhaustion, but I cannot find it anymore.<br>
<br>However, ordinary use via LOAD-OP, LOAD-FASL-OP or other operators will function as usual -- I have experienced no problem so far with the libraries that quicklisp ships.<br><br>Juanjo<br><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>
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