[slime-devel] suggestion for ~/.slime/fasl/*

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:02:12 +0200, "Pascal J.Bourguignon" <pjb at informatimago.com> said:
  Pascal> Content-Language:          en

  Pascal> Martin Simmons writes:
  >> >>>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:11:27 +0200 (CEST), "Pascal J.Bourguignon" <pjb at informatimago.com> said:
  >> 
  Pascal> Some lisp implementation can be run on different architectures.
  >> 
  Pascal> If users keep the same home on different computers this will lead to
  Pascal> collision in ~/.slime/fasl/* directories.
  >> 
  Pascal> To generate the directory name for fasl files, I use the following
  Pascal> function, adding the machine type:
  >> 
  Pascal> (defun first-word (text)
  Pascal> (let ((pos (position (character " ") text)))
  Pascal> (if pos (subseq text 0 pos) text)))
  >> 
  Pascal> (defun implementation-id ()
  Pascal> (format nil "~A-~A-~A"
  Pascal> (first-word (lisp-implementation-type))
  Pascal> (first-word (lisp-implementation-version))
  Pascal> (first-word (machine-type))));;implementation-id
  >> 
  >> This could be problematic if any of the functions returns a string containing
  >> illegal filename characters (e.g. /).

  Pascal> We could do further filtering, or once such an implementation is
  Pascal> identified, we could map the values it returns to sane words.

I see that the #+cmu code does that already.

__Martin