Faré <[email protected]> writes:

> Do we want to (a) leave run-shell-command half-broken on various
> combination of OSes and implementations as soon as any argument needs
> quoting, do we want to (b) use heavy artillery to solve the problem
> correctly, or should we not just (c) delete this broken functionality
> that obviously nobody can or should be relying on for anything
> serious?
>
> My preference goes to (c) delete the damn thing (replacing the
> function body by an error that suggests a good replacement), but only
> if it doesn't create a quagmire for users.

My preference is to leave it as-is.

> Xach - would it be easy for you to test Quicklisp with a version of
> ASDF without run-shell-command (or fmakunbound'ing it early on) and
> see if anything breaks?

Of Quicklisp projects, it breaks CommonQT, elephant, gsll, umlisp, and
cl-gene-searcher.

Zach

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