On 8/31/10 Aug 31 -3:33 PM, Nikodemus Siivola wrote: > On 31 August 2010 22:03, Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 31 August 2010 12:55, Nikodemus Siivola <nikode...@random-state.net> >> wrote: > >>> Exporting random internal utilities from ASDF is a terrible idea, IMO. >>> >> The utilities are not completely random. I use them, and other people use >> them. > > The word was ill-chosen. What I ment was that they appear to have very > little with the rest of ASDF looking from outside in. > > Robert's point regarding lack of portable pathname wrangling tools is > also well made. > > Looking at the export list the following are the ones that "look > random" to me -- having little obvious relation to res of ASDF: > > #:aif > #:appendf > #:coerce-name > #:ends-with > #:length=n-p > #:read-file-forms > #:remove-keys > #:remove-keyword > #:split-string > #:while-collecting >
Of these, I would say that COERCE-NAME, SPLIT-STRING, and probably READ-FILE-FORMS are actually not random. COERCE-NAME is something like SYMBOL-NAME for ASDF: SYMBOL-NAME is /not/ how you want to look up an ASDF system. SPLIT-STRING is used for filename wrangling. READ-FILE-FORMS is used to wrangle configuration files. It's a borderline case. The others seem more like programming utilities that could be dispensed with. I think we're probably stuck with AIF and APPENDF, but WHILE-COLLECTING and some of the others might be safely dispensable. cheers, r _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
