[rucksack-devel] openmcl patch

[Arthur Lemmens]

Marco wrote:

> the attached, trivial, patch adds openmcl support.

Except that it's not attached ;-)

> rucksack used to use host-namestring for grabbing the host part of a
> pathname. however on openmcl this returns "" which, when used to with
> make-pathname :host, creates a logical pathname. pathname-host on the
> other hand returns :unspecified which can be passed back to
> make-pathname to get an object which is equal to the original (all the
> other tests passed without modification). is there a reason for using
> host-namestring i'm not aware of?

I'll let Nikodemus answer this one.  I used to have pathname-host, but
Nikodemus changed it to host-namestring.  I was too lazy to ask Nikodemus
to ask why and just merged his patch.

Arthur