On 4/22/12 Apr 22 -10:21 AM, Stelian Ionescu wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 10:18 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote: >> On 4/22/12 Apr 22 -9:55 AM, Faré wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:54, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state? >>>> >>> Mostly historical reasons. Its test suite predates most test-suite software. >>> No one has rewritten it to use anything else. >>> I would gladly accept a patch that replaces that with, say, fiveam or >>> stefil. >>> Proper use of clear-system and delete-package can help. >> >> I suppose it could be rewritten to do that. I have never thought it was >> worth the trouble, since running the tests would damage the state of any >> lisp process in which it was run (because of changing the internal state >> of ASDF), but such a rewrite would make ASDF testable on LW personal and >> RMCL, which would be a worthwhile objective. >> >> Sadly, FiveAM seems to have been abandoned and is in need of a new >> maintainer. None of the bese projects darcs repos has been modified in >> almost 2 years.... > > Somebody complained about that on bordeaux-threads-devel, so I picked it > up: http://fenlix.dreamwidth.org/2255.html >
That's great. Any chance of you taking over the fiveam page on common-lisp.net and fixing it so it's no longer misleading? Right now it's a decoy pointer to bad stuff. If Marco has given you ownership, taking over the common-lisp.net page for bese.it would be a kindness, if only to point out the transfer. [let's take this off-list now, if there's anything more.] Best, r _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
