Slime and ASDF

[Luís Oliveira]

The problem is the pull request you mentioned is that it's one of those
$#!@#$-backwards-compatibility sort of change. That sort of mindset yields
very rewarding refactoring sessions, to be sure, but annoys everyone else.
A PR implementing proper (but optional) loading via ASDF is IMO welcome.

Thanks,
Luís

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM Attila Lendvai <attila at lendvai.name> wrote:

> [moving this to slime-devel]
>
>
> > I recently banged my head against something similar. Turns out, mcclim
> loads
> > swank, so be sure to delete .slime/fasl too.
>
>
> been there... that's why my slime locally uses
> asdf:apply-output-translations for a few years now.
>
> slime used to be proudly ASDF free, but maybe that's something to
> reconsider, at least with an optional support.
>
> this is what i'm running with (which i don't recommend for inclusion
> in this form):
>
> (defun binary-pathname (src-pathname binary-dir)
>   "Return the pathname where SRC-PATHNAME's binary should be compiled."
> +  (declare (ignore binary-dir))
> +  #+asdf
> +  (asdf:apply-output-translations src-pathname)
> +  #-asdf
>   (let ((cfp (compile-file-pathname src-pathname)))
>     (merge-pathnames (make-pathname :name (pathname-name cfp)
>                                     :type (pathname-type cfp)))))
>
> but if the maintainers are open for this direction, then i may look
> into packaging up and testing a PR for integrating ASDF properly, and
> optionally.
>
> and not forgetting this either: https://github.com/slime/slime/pull/282/
>
> currently swank can break in funny ways when used together with ASDF.
> e.g. :depends-on (:swank) can be a source of great bafflement when it
> reloads swank and undo's half of the contrib's, leaving some stuff
> crippled. and the .slime/fasl dir can also bite you when you thought
> you have deleted the fasl's, except one outlier.
>
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