[slime-devel] ASDF contrib always reports "Compilation failed" in the minibuffer

[Mark Evenson]

The 'slime-asdf' contribution always reports "Compilation failed" in the 
minibuffer for all of the various REPL shortcut commands (i.e. those 
prefixed with the "'" character) dealing with ASDF (tested this under 
SBCL, ABCL, and CLISP).  This is occurring because the value of 
ASDF:OPERATE (aka ASDF:OOS) is seemingly always NIL.  COLLECT-NOTES in 
swank.lisp:2461 is passing this result back to SLIME in the 
COMPILATION-RESULT to be reported in the minibuffer as status.

Did something get lost in a refactoring somewhere?  Or did the ASDF 
hooks always have this behavior?  I can't see a plausible way to assign 
a meaningful status from ASDF:OPERATE anyways (my understanding is that 
it always returns nil), so my suggestion would be to change the 
minibuffer message for COMPILATION-RESULTs from ASDF invocations, but 
that didn't look like a fast fix, so I wanted to solicit advice.

In the scale of things, this is a minor cosmetic problem with SLIME, but 
it was bugging me (and would be confusing for new users)…


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