<p dir="ltr">I fixed everything in my branch ecl-build.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I had to use fas instead of fasb on mkcl. Will investigate at some point.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 3, 2017, 04:49 Jean-Claude Beaudoin <<a href="mailto:jean.claude.beaudoin@gmail.com">jean.claude.beaudoin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Faré <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Jean-Claude,<br class="gmail_msg">
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did MKCL recently change the bundle file type from "fasb" to "fas"?<br class="gmail_msg">
ASDF seems to be failing its test-bundle.script now.<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">No. Nothing has moved in a long time on that front.</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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For the record, I never liked the idea of .fasb; but if you make<br class="gmail_msg">
incompatible changes, please synchronize with me and other users.<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">That .fasb business is a legacy of ECL as you know from the history</div><div class="gmail_msg">of asdf-bundle. I will duly inform you if I ever purposely consider some</div><div class="gmail_msg">incompatible change in that area of MKCL.</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Also, it seems to me that si:mkcl-version and<br class="gmail_msg">
cl:lisp-implementation-version used to be the same (and/or the former<br class="gmail_msg">
didn't exist?), but now latter is more precise whereas the former is<br class="gmail_msg">
used for number .so. Is that correct?<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Yes, this was the first post-1.1.10 change to MKCL. This change should</div><div class="gmail_msg">only affect git controlled development versions of MKCL. For released</div><div class="gmail_msg">versions of MKCL the two functions are still identical. Under git, the</div><div class="gmail_msg">preference is given to the new #'si::git-describe-this-mkcl instead, which</div><div class="gmail_msg">gives a more exact description of the real version of the specific instance</div><div class="gmail_msg">of MKCL. I thought that change was a good feature, maybe I was wrong.</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Is it OK if I support only the latest version of MKCL?<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I don't have any expectations in that area other than that latest ASDF</div><div class="gmail_msg">release should work on latest MKCL master branch head or something</div><div class="gmail_msg">close to this. Seeing ASDF be backward compatible with earlier MKCL</div><div class="gmail_msg">version is surely a nice thing but it is an ASDF initiative.</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Do you have an idea of how many users you have, and whether some<br class="gmail_msg">
insist on using old versions of MKCL?<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I do not have any counter on the number of MKCL instances in use out there</div><div class="gmail_msg">but I had some surprises in the past in that domain.</div><div class="gmail_msg">And I am not on notice that anyone insist on using any specific old version of MKCL.</div><div class="gmail_msg"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Finally, test-program.script now fails,<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I'll look into it (soon I hope).</div><div class="gmail_msg">Is this ASDF master head on MKCL master head or otherwise?</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div>
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