On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Gary King wrote: >> There would be several benefits if FIND-SYSTEM were to simply PROBE-FILE >> for a system definition in each of the configured paths (e.g. >> path1/system.asd, path2/system.asd) until one is found. Better >> efficiency, no pollution from unrelated packages, etc. > > I agree except that ASDF doesn't require that the definition of foo be found > in foo.asd or that bar.asd contain system bar. If we enforced this then we > could say that find-system is a wrapper for a clever probe-file. Otherwise, > we need to load definitions to make sure that things are happy. n'est pas?
Consider my comment as a feature request. Drepper's dso howto explains issues that might negatively affect ASDF systems in the large. - Daniel _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
