Dear James, On 8 March 2010 11:08, james anderson <james.ander...@setf.de> wrote: > please find referenced below, a suggestion as to the use cases which > the component pathname computation should support.[1]
specifying :pathname arguments to ASDF components as strings had NEVER been working portably before ASDF 1.630. The current behavior might not fit all the non-portable expectations that someone or some other might have fancied at some point, but 1- it is now portable, and 2- any previous non-portable expectation can still achieved with a simple #p prefix to your namestring. Therefore, I think the current behavior is 100% better than the previous one. It indeed needs to be better documented, though. It would be nice if from your file was extracted a test for the actually supported combinations. I'd include that in the ASDF test suite. As for the non-supported combinations, well, they are not supported, never have been, and probably never will. Note interestingly that #p"..." pathnames other than logical pathnames are not portable either, are not supported, and should NOT be tested in the test-suite. > - if a logical pathname is specified as a string, it is not > correctly coerced to a logical pathname. in sbcl it causes an error. > in ccl the pathname is wrong. Not supported. Never will be. Please use #p for that. > - if a relative pathname is specified for a source file, either the > file name is missing in the component pathname or the type is missing > depending on the declaration. Can you give an example? > there may be some combinations for which the expected target is wrong > - with the consequent false positive/negative. > if one could eliminate the systematic failures, should any still > remain, we can look again. If you can produce a list of failures in cases that should be supported, that'd be great. > [1] : http://github.com/lisp/de.setf.asdf.x/blob/master/test/cp-test.lisp > [2] : > http://github.com/lisp/de.setf.asdf.x/blob/master/test/cp-test-results-fasl.txt > [3] : > http://github.com/lisp/de.setf.asdf.x/blob/master/test/cp-test-results-dfsl.txt [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
