[slime-devel] Re: A little swank.asd/swank-loader.lisp rectification.

Helmut Eller heller at common-lisp.net
Sun Dec 2 07:48:20 UTC 2007


* Samium Gromoff [2007-11-30 13:14+0100] writes:

>> I noticed this patch adds 4 files and a lot of complexity.
>
> It makes the ASDF load path use the generic .fasl storage policy,
> so at a certain conceptual level it removes complexity.
>
> Moreso, it makes data more explicit -- namely the contrib list
> and the constituent file list are now specified at separate,
> well-known locations, prone to creative tampering.
>
> Making the policies that were hidden to be explicit is bound
> to produce that feeling of complexity.
>
> But yes, the loading is now less self-contained.

Adding so many files is to much clutter.

Helmut.




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