[mcclim-devel] mcclim-0.9.1:system.lisp

[Mike McDonald]

>To: Mike McDonald <mikemac at mikemac.com>
>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:46:05 -0500
>From: rpgoldman at real-time.com
>
>
>I did that.  You can't very well :USE MK into CL-USER on Allegro,
>because Allegro's CL-USER :USEs their :EXCL package, and their :EXCL
>package contains their own DEFSYSTEM.  So using both makes a big
>mess.
>
>When I looked into this, I found that it was really painless, for the
>few places where the MK-DEFSYSTEM stuff *was* used, to just turn FOO
>into MK:FOO.
>
>At the cost of a few extra characters, we avoid a gross effect on the
>CL-USER package.  Seemed like a good tradeoff to me. 
>
>BTW, I'm pretty sure that this was earlier discussed on the
>mcclim-devel list, since I have only recently acquired commit
>permission.  So I managed to persuade the community at large that this
>would be at least an OK Thing To Do.
>
>Best,
>R

  I was refering to all of the lines that start with a +!

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac at mikemac.com