Yes. I can stop using it. I will try to tackle that this weekend. -- Patrick <[email protected]>
On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Faré <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Pat, > > I'd like to kill the evil that is :weakly-depends-on, and your > cl-growl seems to be the only user of it in quicklisp. > > :weakly-depends-on is evil because it's non-deterministic, and what > code you get depends on which order things were compiled or > configured, and you can't fix things after the fact. Could you stop > using it? > > Alternatives include having a separate system foo+bar that explicitly > loads foo and bar before doing the connection, and/or using > asdf-system-connections to automatically load foo+bar when both foo > and bar have been loaded. I don't personally like this automatic > loading, but at least it doesn't break determinism. > > As for allowing a system to run with or without another, that's what > hooks are call, i.e. runtime configuration variables. > > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org > So that there be reality, there must be an observer. > "I am, therefore someone thinks." — Faré _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
