[usocket-devel] patches for usocket mcl backend and tests

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

james anderson wrote

> On 2010-01-04, at 08:52 , Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:
>
>> Hi, James
>>
>> Thanks, most of your patch has been committed.
>
> that's nice. from what i can see, there's still (at least) one  
> function missing: something to get the local ip number. mcl calls it  
> local-interface-ip-nuumber, clozure has a list of ip interface  
> descriptors from which one could choose (see ccl::%get-ip-interfaces).
>
>>
>> The only left part is the "fully qualified system name". Why it  
>> works? Which version of ASDF support that?
>>
>
> i wasn't expecting they would work elsewhere. i do things that way  
> since, at this point there are over 200 .asd definitions in my source  
> tree and it's not sensible to track each with it's own entry in some  
> registry. in order to avoid that, i implemented a hierarchical search  
> function and add it to the asdf system search functions. i sent gary  
> king a version of it a while ago, but he didn't think it worth while,  
> so i just make local changes. i read lately, that they're now  
> considering something similar, so i may try again.

Please do. I think it should be incorporated as a contrib.

  -T.